30 August 2013
MITIE Group PLC
Pursuant to the general authority given to the Company by shareholders, the Company announces that it has purchased ordinary shares of 2.5p ("Shares") each as follows:
Date of purchase: 30 August 2013
Number of Shares purchased: 300,000
Highest price paid: 280p
Lowest price paid: 277p
The purchase represented an average price of 278.3p per Share.
The purchased Shares will be held in treasury rather than being cancelled, so that they can be reissued at a later date, if required. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 365,941,453 and the total number of shares held in treasury is 2,412,173. The Board has approved the purchase of Shares in order to offset the increase in share numbers anticipated from the issue of Shares in connection with the Company's share schemes.
Notes to editors
For further information, please contact:
John Telling, Group Corporate Affairs Director
T: 020 3123 8673 M: 07979 701006
Erica Lockhart, Head of Corporate Affairs
T: 020 3123 8179 M: 07979 784488