2 May 2014
St Ives plc - ('the Company') Transaction in own shares
St Ives plc announces that, on 1 May 2014, it purchased through Numis Securities Limited 10,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company at a price of 201.0 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.
Following the above purchase, the Company holds 129,074 ordinary shares in Treasury and has a total of 122,606,602 ordinary shares of 10p each (excluding shares held in Treasury) in issue. The number of ordinary shares purchased represented approximately 0.1% of the voting rights attributable to the total ordinary shares in issue prior to such purchase.
Philip Harris
Group Company Secretary
St Ives plc
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