Treasury Stock

RNS Number : 5603D

Sports Direct International Plc

16 September 2008

 



SPORTS DIRECT INTERNATIONAL plc

Sports Direct International plc announces that on 16 September 2008 it sold 8,000,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each from Treasury to the Sports Direct Employee Benefit Trust, an employee share scheme within the meaning of Section 1166 of the Companies Act 2006, at a price of 76.17 pence per share.  

Following the above transaction the Company now holds 64,000,000 ordinary shares in Treasury and the total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding ordinary shares held in Treasury) is 576,452,369 

Enquiries:    

Michael Oliver

Company Secretary

Sports Direct International plc

0870 838 7371

 

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