Treasury Stock

RNS Number : 7784M

Wolseley PLC

22 January 2016

 

WOLSELEY PLC

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER OF SHARES OUT OF TREASURY

Wolseley plc (the "Company") wishes to announce that on 22 January 2016, it transferred 40,446 ordinary shares of the Company of 10 ⁵³/₆₆p each held by the Company in treasury ("Treasury Shares") to employees of the Wolseley Group in satisfaction of options and awards under the Wolseley Group Long Term Incentive Plan 2012 ("LTIP 2012") and the Wolseley Group Executive Share Option Plan 2012 ("ESOP 2012"). The exercise price of 13,081 shares under option under the ESOP 2012 was 2,796 pence and the remaining 27,365 shares under option and awards under the LTIP 2012 were nil cost.

As a consequence of that transfer, the Company now holds 11,389,576 Treasury Shares and its issued share capital (excluding Treasury Shares) is 255,228,983. 

The total voting rights figure (of 255,228,983) 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.

This disclosure is made pursuant to the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rule 12.6.4R.

Enquiries:

Graham Middlemiss, Group Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

 

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