Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 3568H

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

16 August 2016

 

RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC

TRANSACTION IN OWN SECURITIES

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc ("RB") announces today that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 10p each (the "Ordinary Shares") on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC ("Morgan Stanley"). Such purchase was effected pursuant to irrevocable instructions issued by RB on 28th June 2016, as announced on 28th June 2016:

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchase:	16 August 2016
Number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	147,853
Average Price per share:	£75.5329 Lowest:   £75.1700
	Highest:  £75.8000

RB intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transaction, RB holds 33,251,405 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 703,283,774 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the attached schedule contains a breakdown of the individual trades.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/3568H_-2016-8-16.pdf 

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

Contact:

Christine Logan

Company Secretary

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc

01753 217800

 

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