Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2146D

Serco Group PLC

28 June 2021

 

28 June 2021  

Serco Group plc   (the 'Company')

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300PT2CIHYN5GWJ21  

Notification of Transfer of Shares out of Treasury and Cancellation of Treasury Shares

Pursuant to the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rule 12.6.4, the Company hereby notifies the market that on 25 June 2021:

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The Company transferred 15,350,000 ordinary shares of 2 pence each (the 'Ordinary Shares') that were held by the Company in treasury to the Serco Group plc 1998 Employee Share Ownership Trust to be used specifically to satisfy awards granted under the Company's 2009 Performance Share Plan, 2009 Deferred Bonus Plan, and 2019 Long-Term Incentive Plan. The consideration received was 2 pence per Ordinary Share.

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The Company cancelled from treasury 15,371,849 Ordinary Shares.

Following the transactions referred to in this announcement, the Company holds no Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 1,218,008,788 Ordinary Shares in issue. The total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights is 1,218,008,788 which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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For further information please contact:

Paul Checketts, Head of Investor Relations, tel: [phone] or email: [e-mail] Marcus De Ville, Head of Media Relations, tel: [phone] or email: [e-mail]  

About Serco

Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector.  We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. More information can be found at www.serco.com .

 

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