Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8978X
DFS Furniture PLC
23 December 2019
 

23 December 2019

 

For immediate release

 

DFS Furniture plc  ("DFS" and the "Company")

Transaction in own shares

 

DFS Furniture plc (the "Company") announces that on 23 December 2019 it purchased for Treasury the following number of its ordinary shares of 150 pence each pursuant to its 400,000 share repurchase programme, details of which were announced on 10 December and 18 December 2019.

 

Description of shares: DFS Furniture plc - ordinary shares of 150 pence

Number of shares repurchased: 12,224 shares

Date of transaction: 23 December 2019

Average price paid per share: 289.06 pence

Lowest price paid per share: 286.50 pence

Highest price paid per share: 292.00 pence

Broker: Jefferies International Limited

 

Following the purchase of these shares, the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 212,364,548 (excluding Treasury shares), and the company will hold 666,053 ordinary shares in Treasury.

The figure of 212,364,548 may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) 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, the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases is available below.

 

Transaction date

Transaction time

Volume

Price (GBp)

23/12/2019

08:02:37

171

289.5

23/12/2019

08:02:37

245

289.5

23/12/2019

08:07:37

3

292

23/12/2019

08:07:37

386

292

23/12/2019

08:09:49

263

290

23/12/2019

08:09:49

276

290

23/12/2019

08:10:57

519

289.5

23/12/2019

08:15:21

277

289.5

23/12/2019

08:17:52

383

286.5

23/12/2019

08:29:07

107

286.5

23/12/2019

08:29:07

123

286.5

23/12/2019

08:29:07

234

286.5

23/12/2019

08:52:32

211

286.5

23/12/2019

09:10:01

249

287.5

23/12/2019

09:10:01

30

287.5

23/12/2019

09:10:01

185

287.5

23/12/2019

09:23:01

219

288

23/12/2019

11:07:59

4

289.5

23/12/2019

11:07:59

500

289.5

23/12/2019

11:07:59

1584

290

23/12/2019

11:57:51

250

287.5

23/12/2019

12:02:20

239

290

23/12/2019

12:05:56

242

288

23/12/2019

12:32:13

251

288

23/12/2019

12:34:11

244

290

23/12/2019

12:34:11

652

290

23/12/2019

12:34:11

1400

290

23/12/2019

12:55:50

452

289

23/12/2019

13:57:35

71

290

23/12/2019

14:18:27

365

290

23/12/2019

14:35:52

233

289

23/12/2019

15:25:56

418

289

23/12/2019

15:59:49

236

288.5

23/12/2019

16:07:12

164

287.5

23/12/2019

16:27:13

28

287.5

23/12/2019

16:28:02

14

287.5

23/12/2019

16:28:02

208

287.5

23/12/2019

16:28:02

314

287.5

23/12/2019

16:28:07

13

287.5

23/12/2019

16:28:07

194

287.5

23/12/2019

16:28:55

86

287.5

23/12/2019

16:29:19

181

287.5

 

For further information, please contact:

DFS (enquiries via Tulchan)

TULCHAN

Liz McDonald (Company Secretary)

Phil Hutchinson (Investor Relations)

investor.relations@dfs.co.uk

James Macey-White

Jessica Reid

Amber Ahluwalia

dfs@tulchangroup.com



 

About DFS Furniture plc

DFS is the clear market leading retailer of living room furniture in the United Kingdom. We design, manufacture, sell and deliver to our customers an extensive range of furniture products. The business operates a retail network of living room furniture stores in the United Kingdom and Europe, together with an online channel. These have been established and developed gradually over 50 years of operating history. We attract customers to our stores and website through our substantial and continued investment in nationwide marketing activities and our reputation for high quality  roducts and service, breadth of product ranges and price points and favourable consumer financing options.

 


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