Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8508C
DFS Furniture PLC
13 February 2020
 

13 February 2020

 

For immediate release

 

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

Transaction in own shares

 

DFS Furniture plc (the "Company") announces that on 12 February 2020 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: 12,495 shares

Date of transaction: 12 February 2020

Average price paid per share: 276.89 pence

Lowest price paid per share: 275.00 pence

Highest price paid per share: 279.50 pence

Broker: Jefferies International Limited

 

Following the purchase of these shares and those shares subsequently utilised to satisfy the employee share based award obligation the remaining number of ordinary shares in issue will be 212,663,205 (excluding Treasury shares), and the company will hold 367,396 ordinary shares in Treasury.

The figure of 212,663,205 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)

12/02/2020

09:42:36

104

276.5

12/02/2020

09:42:39

43

276.5

12/02/2020

09:44:42

343

276.5

12/02/2020

09:46:24

245

276.5

12/02/2020

09:48:46

6

276

12/02/2020

09:48:46

250

276

12/02/2020

09:54:15

220

276.5

12/02/2020

10:56:23

57

278

12/02/2020

10:56:23

155

278

12/02/2020

10:59:11

265

278.5

12/02/2020

10:59:11

924

278.5

12/02/2020

10:59:14

1

277

12/02/2020

10:59:20

268

277

12/02/2020

10:59:48

254

276

12/02/2020

11:01:28

216

275.5

12/02/2020

11:06:21

225

275.5

12/02/2020

12:54:36

225

278.5

12/02/2020

13:10:29

224

276.5

12/02/2020

13:35:40

237

276

12/02/2020

13:35:45

1090

275

12/02/2020

13:39:25

404

276.5

12/02/2020

13:39:25

78

276.5

12/02/2020

13:54:15

498

277

12/02/2020

14:17:17

118

276.5

12/02/2020

14:22:18

146

276.5

12/02/2020

14:22:18

256

276.5

12/02/2020

14:58:02

63

276

12/02/2020

15:07:03

50

276

12/02/2020

15:13:36

141

276

12/02/2020

15:18:26

69

277.5

12/02/2020

15:18:33

438

278

12/02/2020

15:33:48

37

275.5

12/02/2020

15:34:01

75

275.5

12/02/2020

15:34:27

27

275.5

12/02/2020

15:34:27

124

275.5

12/02/2020

15:34:28

146

275.5

12/02/2020

15:39:37

65

275.5

12/02/2020

15:40:04

472

275.5

12/02/2020

15:44:33

251

276.5

12/02/2020

15:59:39

260

276

12/02/2020

16:01:50

260

276.5

12/02/2020

16:01:50

471

276.5

12/02/2020

16:01:50

825

276.5

12/02/2020

16:01:50

243

276.5

12/02/2020

16:15:23

133

279

12/02/2020

16:15:23

79

279

12/02/2020

16:15:44

210

279

12/02/2020

16:15:44

214

279

12/02/2020

16:22:03

38

279

12/02/2020

16:22:03

95

279

12/02/2020

16:22:03

125

279

12/02/2020

16:26:07

57

279

12/02/2020

16:26:07

387

279

12/02/2020

16:29:21

39

279.5

12/02/2020

16:29:21

249

279.5

 

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 products and service, breadth of product ranges and price points and favourable consumer financing options.

 


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