For immediate release
15 October 2024
(the "Company")
MARKET PURCHASE OF COMPANY'S OWN SHARES
This notification is given, pursuant to the authority granted at an Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 10 July 2024 to make market purchases of the Company's own shares up to an aggregate maximum of 79,248,688.
The Company has purchased a market total of 282,043 Ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the capital of the Company today at a price of 345.4 pence per share. These shares will be held in treasury.
Following this transaction, the Company hereby notifies the market that the resultant number of Ordinary shares held by the Company in treasury is 86,197,136 and the total number of Ordinary shares that the Company has in issue is 601,665,200 so that the total number of voting rights in the Company following the repurchase is 515,468,064.
The figure of 515,468,064 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they may determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Frostrow Capital LLP
Company Secretary
For further information, please contact:
Mark Pope
Frostrow Capital LLP
Tel: 020 3 0084913