14 August 2014
St Ives plc - ('the Company') Transaction in own shares
St Ives plc announces that, on 13 August 2014, it purchased through Numis Securities Limited 22,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company at a price of 205.75 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.
Following the above purchase, the Company holds 135,047 ordinary shares in Treasury and has a total of 125,035,658 ordinary shares of 10p each (excluding shares held in Treasury) in issue. The number of ordinary shares purchased represented approximately 0.02% of the voting rights attributable to the total ordinary shares in issue prior to such purchase.
Philip Harris
Group Company Secretary
St Ives plc
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