Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9232S

Wolseley PLC

13 July 2015

 

 Transaction in Own Shares

Wolseley plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 25 November 2014, the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 ⁵³/₆₆ pence each ("Shares") as part of the share repurchase programme announced on 30 September 2014:

Date of purchase:	13 July 2015
Number of Shares purchased:	129,422
Highest price paid per Share:	4,243 pence
Lowest price paid per Share:	4,222 pence
Average price paid per Share:	4,233.93 pence

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds 7,112,230 Shares in Treasury.

The Company has 259,480,448 Shares in issue (excluding Shares held in Treasury and including the 3,807 Shares transferred out of Treasury on 13 July 2015 as announced earlier today). This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may 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 a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Wolseley plc

John Martin, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Mark Fearon, Director of Communications and Investor Relations	[phone]
	[phone]

 

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