Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9430Z

Hays PLC

25 July 2008

 

Hays plc announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £0.01 each on the London Stock Exchange via UBS Investment Bank.

 

Ordinary shares:                                                                                           

 

Date of purchase:                                                                 25 July 2008

           

Number of ordinary shares purchased:                              80,000           

 

Highest price paid per share:                                              80.25p

 

Lowest price paid per share:                                               79.75p

 

Volume weighted average price per share:                       79.9785p

 

Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

 

Following the purchase of these shares, Hays holds 87,794,736of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 1,376,301,830ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

           

 

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