Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7612B

Witan Investment Trust PLC

20 August 2008

 



WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

20 August 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 100,000 ordinary shares of 25p each of the Company was made today at a price of 413.4969p per share.

Following the purchase and cancellation of the above shares, 215,702,439 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). 

-ENDS-

For further information please contact:

Jim Horsburgh

Chief Executive Officer

Witan Investment Trust plc

Tel: [phone]

or

James Budden

Marketing Director

Witan Investment Trust plc

Tel: [phone]

 

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