For immediate release
15 February 2024
(the "Company")
MARKET PURCHASE OF COMPANY'S OWN SHARES
The Company announces that it has today purchased 187,982 of its own shares ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 848.92 pence per Ordinary Share. Such shares will be held in treasury by the Company.
The transaction was made pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 23 January 2024.
Following this transaction, the total number of Ordinary Shares held by the Company in treasury is 32,257,370; the total number of Ordinary Shares that the Company has in issue, less the total number of Ordinary Shares held by the Company in treasury following such purchase, and therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 192,733,933.
The figure of 192,733,933 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for calculations of interests in the Company's voting rights in accordance with the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Frostrow Capital LLP
Company Secretary
For further information, please contact:
Victoria Hale
Frostrow Capital LLP
Tel: 020 3 170 8732