Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 4561T

MITIE Group PLC

19 November 2013

 



19 November 2013

MITIE Group PLC

MITIE Group PLC (the "Company") - Transaction in own Shares

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: 19 November 2013

Number of Shares purchased: 166,496

Highest price paid: 315p

Lowest price paid: 312p

The purchase represented an average price of 313.44p 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 367,968,960 and the total number of shares held in treasury is 4,622,604.  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

 

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