Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7215H

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

19 August 2016

 

RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC

TRANSACTION IN OWN SECURITIES

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc ("RB") announces today that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 10p each (the "Ordinary Shares") on the London Stock Exchange from Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC ("Morgan Stanley"). Such purchase was effected pursuant to irrevocable instructions issued by RB on 28th June 2016, as announced on 28th June 2016:

Ordinary Shares

Date of purchase:	19 August 2016
Number of Ordinary Shares purchased:	143,248
Average Price per share:	£74.2601 Lowest:   £73.9900
	Highest:  £74.5600

RB intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transaction, RB holds 33,613,533 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 702,921,646 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the attached schedule contains a breakdown of the individual trades.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7215H_-2016-8-19.pdf 

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.

Contact:

Christine Logan

Company Secretary

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc

01753 217800

 

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