Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8234D

BT Group PLC

28 June 2019

 

28 June 2019

BT GROUP PLC (the Company)

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

Further to the Company's announcement on 27 June 2019, the Company announces that on 28 June 2019 it purchased from Atlas Services Belgium S.A., a subsidiary of Orange, 40,743,570 ordinary shares at a price of 196.35 pence per share. The repurchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

The Company's capital consists of 9,968,127,681 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above purchase, the Company shall hold 85,993,297 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company shall be 9,882,134,384.

The above figure (9,882,134,384) 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, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 

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