Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 0296V

Essentra plc

03 April 2023

 

3 April 2023

ESSSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 31 March 2023 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") from Peel Hunt LLP as part of the buyback programme announced on 29 March 2023 (the "Buyback Programme").

ESSENTRA ORD 25P
Date of purchase:	31/03/2023
Aggregate number of Ordinary 10.5p Shares purchased:	282,231
Lowest price paid per share (GBp):	193.0000
Highest price paid per share (GBp):	193.0000
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):	193.0000
Broker	PEEL HUNT

Essentra intends to hold the purchased Ordinary Shares in treasury.

Following the settlement of the above purchases, Essentra has purchased a total of 513,644 Ordinary Shares since the commencement of the Buyback Programme and will have 302,590,708 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue. 1,411,588 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The figure 301,179,120 represents the total number of voting rights in Essentra and can be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.  

Trading Venue	Volume-weighted average price paid per share (Gbp)	Aggregated number of shares purchased
BATS (BATE)	-	-
BATS (BATP)	-	-
Chi-X (CHIX)	-	-
Chi-X (CHID)	-	-
London Stock Exchange (XLON)	193.0000	282,231
Total	193.0000	282,231

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as such Regulation has become part of domestic law by virtue of and for the purposes of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020) and as such Regulation has been amended in such form by any regulations made under that Act), the schedule below contains detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by Peel Hunt LLP as part of the Buyback Programme.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Essentra plc

Emma Reid, Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (Gbp)	Market / Sytematic Internaliser	Time of transaction	Trade ID
15585	193	XLON	20230331 13:22:31.939997 +0100s	00147012621TRLO0
84415	193	XLON	20230331 13:51:41.353587 +0100s	00147014760TRLO0
182231	193	XLON	20230331 16:03:14.202229 +0100s	00147035618TRLO0

 

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