Treasury Stock

RNS Number : 0012D

Wolseley PLC

21 October 2015

 

WOLSELEY PLC

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER OF SHARES OUT OF TREASURY

Wolseley plc (the "Company") wishes to announce that on 21 October 2015, it transferred 6,544 ordinary shares of the Company of 10 ⁵³/₆₆p each held by the Company in treasury ("Treasury Shares") to former employees of the Wolseley Group in satisfaction of options and awards under the Company's International Sharesave Plan 2011 and Long Term Incentive Plan 2012. The exercise price of 182 shares under option under the International Sharesave Plan 2011 was 2768 pence and the remaining 6,362 shares under option under the Long Term Incentive Plan 2012 were nil-cost options.

As a consequence of that transfer, the Company now holds 9,694,062 treasury Shares and its issued share capital (excluding Treasury Shares) is 256,911,322. 

The total voting rights figure (of 256,911,322) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

This disclosure is made pursuant to the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rule 12.6.4R.

Enquiries:

Graham Middlemiss, Group Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

 

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