Commencement of Share Buyback Programme

RNS Number : 7425K

Grafton Group PLC

09 May 2022

 

 

Grafton Group plc

Commences Share Buyback Programme

9 May 2022

On 28 April 2022, Grafton Group plc (the "Group" or the "Company"), the international building materials distributor and DIY retailer, announced its intention to introduce a share buyback programme.

The Company today announces that it has entered into non-discretionary arrangements with Goodbody Stockbrokers UC (acting as agent) and Numis Securities Limited (acting as principal) to conduct the programme and to buy back ordinary shares (the "Shares") on the Company's behalf for a maximum aggregate consideration of up to £100 million and to make trading decisions under the programme independently of the Company in accordance with certain pre-set parameters (the "Buyback").

The Buyback will commence today, 9 May 2022, and end no later than 31 December 2022 subject to market conditions. Under the terms of the Buyback, the Shares will be repurchased on the London Stock Exchange and cancelled.

The purpose of the Buyback is to reduce the share capital of the Company in line with this announcement. It will be conducted within the limits of the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's AGM held on 28 April 2022 to repurchase up to 10 per cent of the Company's ordinary shares in issue (the "Authority") such that the maximum number of Shares which can be repurchased under the Buyback is 23,970,000 Shares (as reduced by any previous purchase of Shares pursuant to the Authority).

The Buyback will also be conducted within the parameters prescribed by the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 (also as in force in the UK, from time to time, including, where relevant, pursuant to the UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019) as well as the applicable laws and regulations of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

The Company will make further announcements in due course following any buy back of Shares. There is no guarantee that the Buyback will be implemented in full or that any Shares will be bought back by the Company.

For further information please contact:

Investors		Media
Grafton Group plc	[phone]	Murray	[phone]
Gavin Slark	Chief Executive Officer	Pat Walsh
David Arnold	Chief Financial Officer
		MHP Communications	[phone]
		Tim Rowntree

About Grafton Group plc

Grafton Group plc is an international distributor of building materials to trade customers and has leading regional or national positions in the merchanting markets in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Finland. Grafton is also the market leader in the DIY, Home and Garden retailing market in Ireland and is the largest manufacturer of dry mortar in the UK where it also operates a market leading staircase manufacturing business.

Grafton trades from circa 350 branches and has circa 8,700 colleagues. The Group's portfolio of brands includes Selco, Leyland SDM, MacBlair, CPI EuroMix and StairBox in the UK; Chadwicks and Woodie's in Ireland, Isero and Polvo in the Netherlands and IKH in Finland.

For further information visit www.graftonplc.com .  

 

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