19 September 2011
SThree plc
Purchase of own shares
SThree plc ("SThree" or the "Company") announces that on 19 September 2011, it purchased for treasury 50,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 232.0095 pence per share. The highest price paid was 236.85 pence per share and the lowest 229.6 pence per share.
This represents 0.041 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.
In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 1,480,116 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is 121,527,463 ordinary shares of 1p each.
The above figure 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, SThree under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Sian Hoskins
Assistant Company Secretary
0207 268 6026