Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4209W

National Grid PLC

18 August 2015

 



18 August 2015

National Grid plc (National Grid)

Transaction in Own Shares

National Grid announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 11^17/43p each on the London Stock Exchange.

Date of purchase:	18 August 2015
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	500,000
Price paid per share (pence):	878.0612 pence

National Grid intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the purchase of these shares, National Grid holds 171,968,433 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,748,713,236 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

Contact: C James, Company Secretarial Assistant, (0207 004 3116).

 

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