Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc

17 August 2023

 

17 August 2023

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 16 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:	16/08/2023
Aggregate number of Ordinary 25p Shares purchased:	28,328
Lowest price paid per share (GBp)	154.8000
Highest price paid per share (GBp):	162.0000
Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):	156.0885
Broker	PEEL HUNT

Essentra intends to cancel the purchased Ordinary Shares.

Following the settlement of the above purchases and cancellation, Essentra has 292,452,988

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

The figure 292,452,288 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)	159.2000	126
Chi-X (CHID)	-	-
London Stock Exchange (XLON)	158.7573	28,202
Total	158.7593	28,328

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
604	156.6	XLON	20230816 08:00:29.156000 +0100s	00152275283TRLO0
245	156.6	XLON	20230816 08:00:29.156000 +0100s	00152275284TRLO0
1086	159	XLON	20230816 08:01:23.368000 +0100s	00152275506TRLO0
134	158.6	XLON	20230816 08:02:32.469000 +0100s	00152275644TRLO0
1062	158.6	XLON	20230816 08:03:02.619000 +0100s	00152275695TRLO0
1146	160.4	XLON	20230816 08:10:38.433000 +0100s	00152276555TRLO0
565	162	XLON	20230816 08:13:10.426000 +0100s	00152276756TRLO0
637	162	XLON	20230816 08:13:10.426000 +0100s	00152276757TRLO0
1123	161.8	XLON	20230816 08:16:02.745000 +0100s	00152276957TRLO0
894	162.2	XLON	20230816 08:18:26.057000 +0100s	00152277085TRLO0
213	162.2	XLON	20230816 08:18:26.057000 +0100s	00152277086TRLO0
100	162	XLON	20230816 08:18:53.027000 +0100s	00152277112TRLO0
1165	162	XLON	20230816 08:18:53.027000 +0100s	00152277113TRLO0
1160	161.6	XLON	20230816 08:27:36.550000 +0100s	00152277645TRLO0
1148	160.8	XLON	20230816 08:27:39.096000 +0100s	00152277647TRLO0
1206	160.4	XLON	20230816 08:27:40.213000 +0100s	00152277650TRLO0
1071	160.2	XLON	20230816 08:28:15.428000 +0100s	00152277688TRLO0
1121	160.2	XLON	20230816 08:29:02.640000 +0100s	00152277733TRLO0
1259	160	XLON	20230816 08:42:48.481000 +0100s	00152278727TRLO0
126	159.2	CHIX	20230816 08:42:56.074000 +0100s	00152278731TRLO0
956	159.2	XLON	20230816 08:51:07.012000 +0100s	00152279236TRLO0
32	158	XLON	20230816 08:51:10.868000 +0100s	00152279239TRLO0
1106	158	XLON	20230816 08:51:10.868000 +0100s	00152279240TRLO0
1187	157.2	XLON	20230816 08:51:12.038000 +0100s	00152279242TRLO0
1121	157	XLON	20230816 08:52:50.246000 +0100s	00152279326TRLO0
1174	156.8	XLON	20230816 09:11:37.685000 +0100s	00152280520TRLO0
98	156	XLON	20230816 09:11:41.929000 +0100s	00152280525TRLO0
1153	156	XLON	20230816 09:11:41.929000 +0100s	00152280526TRLO0
49	155.6	XLON	20230816 09:19:02.060000 +0100s	00152281007TRLO0
1093	155.6	XLON	20230816 09:19:02.060000 +0100s	00152281008TRLO0
121	154.8	XLON	20230816 09:31:25.093000 +0100s	00152281805TRLO0
40	154.8	XLON	20230816 09:31:25.096000 +0100s	00152281806TRLO0
523	155.4	XLON	20230816 09:35:55.070000 +0100s	00152282100TRLO0
51	155.4	XLON	20230816 09:42:55.075000 +0100s	00152282502TRLO0
667	155.4	XLON	20230816 09:42:55.075000 +0100s	00152282503TRLO0
373	155.6	XLON	20230816 10:05:31.991000 +0100s	00152284448TRLO0
735	155.6	XLON	20230816 10:05:32.008000 +0100s	00152284449TRLO0
42	155.4	XLON	20230816 10:05:34.019000 +0100s	00152284454TRLO0
1011	155.4	XLON	20230816 10:05:34.019000 +0100s	00152284455TRLO0
486	155.2	XLON	20230816 10:09:42.116000 +0100s	00152284697TRLO0
245	156.6	XLON	20230816 08:00:29.156000 +0100s	00152275281TRLO0

 

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