Treasury Stock

RNS Number : 2788F

Wolseley PLC

26 July 2016

 

WOLSELEY PLC

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER OF SHARES OUT OF TREASURY

Wolseley plc (the "Company") wishes to announce that on 26 July 2016, it transferred 7,767 ordinary shares of the Company of 10 ⁵³/₆₆ pence each held by the Company in treasury ("Treasury Shares") to employees of the Wolseley Group in satisfaction of options and awards under the Company's Employees Savings Related Share Option Scheme 1981, Employees Savings Related Share Option Scheme 2010, Wolseley European Sharesave Plan 2010 and Wolseley Group International Sharesave Plan 2011.  The exercise price of each share under option was between 701 pence and 3,253 pence.

As a consequence of that transfer, the Company now holds 14,259,276 Treasury Shares and its issued share capital (excluding Treasury Shares) is 252,376,830. 

The total voting rights figure (of 252,376,830) 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 12.6.4 R.

Enquiries:

Graham Middlemiss, Group Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

 

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