WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
20 May 2008
WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
Market Purchase by the Company of its own Ordinary Shares
Witan Investment Trust plc hereby gives notification that, pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 28 April 2008 to make market purchases of the Company's own shares, a market purchase of 170,000 ordinary shares of 25p each of the Company was made today at a price of 465.3418p per share.
Following the purchase and cancellation of the above shares, 218,335,852 ordinary shares of 25p each will remain in issue.
The capital of the Company with full voting rights is now the above number of ordinary shares of 25p each. This figure may be used as the denominator for calculations of interests in the Company's voting rights. On a poll ordinary shareholders have one vote for every £1 in nominal value (ie four ordinary shares are required for one vote).
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For further information please contact:
Jim Horsburgh
Chief Executive Officer
Witan Investment Trust plc
Tel: 020 7227 9779
or
James Budden
Marketing Director
Witan Investment Trust plc
Tel: 020 7227 9772