Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 5960K
BT Group PLC
22 August 2012
 

22 August 2012

 

 

BT GROUP PLC

 

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL

 

BT Group plc announces that on 22 August 2012 it purchased from Merrill Lynch International 1,500,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 216.4292 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

 

BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,151,227,029 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above purchase, BT Group plc holds 275,704,953 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,875,522,076.

 

The above figure 7,875,522,076 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, BT Group plc under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

 

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