SThree plc
Purchase of own shares
SThree plc ("SThree" or the "Company") announces that on 22 May 2012, it purchased for treasury 50,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 274.0 pence per share. The highest and the lowest price paid was 274.0 pence per share.
This represents 0.04 percent of the issued share capital of the Company.
In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1, following this purchase, there are 1,870,376 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in SThree is 121,137,203 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.
Sarah Anderson
Deputy Company Secretary
0207 268 6026