Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc

11 August 2023

 

11 August 2023

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 10 August 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:	10/08/2023
Aggregate number of Ordinary 25p Shares purchased:	24,808
Lowest price paid per share (GBp)	156.8000
Highest price paid per share (GBp):	159.0000
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):	158.3086
Broker	PEEL HUNT

Essentra intends to cancel the purchased Ordinary Shares.

Following the settlement of the above purchases and cancellation, Essentra has 292,558,002

Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue (excluding 5,039,265 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each held in treasury).

The figure 292,558,002 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)	159.0000	231
Chi-X (CHID)	159.0000	1,246
London Stock Exchange (XLON)	158.2648	23,331
Total	158.3086	24,808

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

Amina Olatunji, Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased	Transaction price (Gbp)	Market / Sytematic Internaliser	Time of transaction	Trade ID
1071	156.8	XLON	20230810 08:17:51.667000 +0100s	00152090949TRLO0
827	157	XLON	20230810 08:36:03.427000 +0100s	00152092128TRLO0
391	157	XLON	20230810 08:36:03.427000 +0100s	00152092129TRLO0
105	157	XLON	20230810 08:43:34.294000 +0100s	00152092641TRLO0
207	157	XLON	20230810 08:44:56.525000 +0100s	00152092718TRLO0
199	157	XLON	20230810 08:44:56.526000 +0100s	00152092719TRLO0
268	159	XLON	20230810 09:19:03.859000 +0100s	00152094968TRLO0
793	159	XLON	20230810 09:19:03.859000 +0100s	00152094969TRLO0
231	159	CHIX	20230810 09:23:15.997000 +0100s	00152095223TRLO0
823	159	XLON	20230810 09:45:59.675000 +0100s	00152096539TRLO0
1241	158.4	XLON	20230810 09:57:35.208000 +0100s	00152097221TRLO0
1218	158.2	XLON	20230810 09:59:17.007000 +0100s	00152097361TRLO0
76	158.2	XLON	20230810 10:09:11.026000 +0100s	00152098569TRLO0
84	158.2	XLON	20230810 10:14:29.015000 +0100s	00152099025TRLO0
84	158.6	XLON	20230810 10:19:09.006000 +0100s	00152099352TRLO0
84	158.6	XLON	20230810 10:23:51.011000 +0100s	00152099721TRLO0
865	158.6	XLON	20230810 10:23:51.011000 +0100s	00152099722TRLO0
49	158.2	XLON	20230810 11:21:16.018000 +0100s	00152103391TRLO0
55	158.2	XLON	20230810 11:23:40.011000 +0100s	00152103502TRLO0
105	158.4	XLON	20230810 12:09:51.026000 +0100s	00152105832TRLO0
106	158.4	XLON	20230810 12:18:19.005000 +0100s	00152106289TRLO0
880	158.8	XLON	20230810 12:23:12.253000 +0100s	00152106523TRLO0
85	158.8	XLON	20230810 12:23:12.254000 +0100s	00152106524TRLO0
117	158.8	XLON	20230810 12:23:12.254000 +0100s	00152106525TRLO0
449	158.6	XLON	20230810 12:29:09.925000 +0100s	00152106920TRLO0
1246	159	CHID	20230810 12:29:29.534000 +0100s	00152106941TRLO0
24	158.6	XLON	20230810 12:32:15.014000 +0100s	00152107107TRLO0
3	158.6	XLON	20230810 12:53:44.624000 +0100s	00152108051TRLO0
1073	159	XLON	20230810 13:23:02.133000 +0100s	00152109403TRLO0
1210	159	XLON	20230810 13:30:48.837000 +0100s	00152109818TRLO0
1103	159	XLON	20230810 13:43:21.801000 +0100s	00152110490TRLO0
1181	158.6	XLON	20230810 13:55:33.037000 +0100s	00152111075TRLO0
45	158.8	XLON	20230810 13:55:35.454000 +0100s	00152111080TRLO0
404	158.8	XLON	20230810 13:55:39.396000 +0100s	00152111084TRLO0
586	158.8	XLON	20230810 13:55:43.989000 +0100s	00152111088TRLO0
1206	158.8	XLON	20230810 14:25:54.526000 +0100s	00152112926TRLO0
641	158.4	XLON	20230810 14:33:03.315000 +0100s	00152113786TRLO0
439	158.4	XLON	20230810 14:33:03.315000 +0100s	00152113787TRLO0
1054	158	XLON	20230810 14:35:00.628000 +0100s	00152114074TRLO0
952	157.6	XLON	20230810 14:43:44.257000 +0100s	00152116248TRLO0
90	157.6	XLON	20230810 14:43:44.275000 +0100s	00152116249TRLO0
254	157.8	XLON	20230810 14:52:41.015000 +0100s	00152117885TRLO0
943	157.8	XLON	20230810 14:52:41.044000 +0100s	00152117886TRLO0
1130	157.4	XLON	20230810 15:06:16.020000 +0100s	00152120109TRLO0
210	157.6	XLON	20230810 15:17:55.031000 +0100s	00152121765TRLO0
601	157.6	XLON	20230810 15:20:28.034000 +0100s	00152122080TRLO0

 

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