Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9661I

DFS Furniture PLC

22 April 2022

 

22 April 2022

DFS Furniture plc

Transaction in Own Shares

DFS Furniture plc ("DFS" or the "Group"), today announces that it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £0.10 each on Exchange (as defined in the Rules of the London Stock Exchange) from Jefferies International Limited pursuant to its Share Buyback Programme, details of which were announced on 15 March 2022.

Date of purchase	21-Apr-22
Aggregate number of shares purchased:	5,768
Lowest price paid per share:	171.20
Highest price paid per share:	173.80
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	172.99
Broker:	Jefferies International Limited

DFS intends to retain the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transaction, the Company will have 258,636,720 ordinary shares of £0.10 each in issue. The total number of shares held by the Company in treasury is 505,019.

Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company is 258,131,701 and this figure 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 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018) (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases is available below:

Transaction Date	Transaction Time	Volume	Price (GBp)	Platform	Transaction Reference Number
21/04/2022	16:29:51	412	173.2	XLON	00296510957TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	16:20:18	616	173.8	XLON	00296503309TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	15:44:22	564	173.6	XLON	00296480020TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	15:29:49	529	173.2	XLON	00296471183TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	15:29:21	455	173.2	XLON	00296470899TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	15:23:32	459	173.2	XLON	00296467045TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	15:23:29	3	173.2	XLON	00296467021TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	13:32:26	850	173	XLON	00296402941TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	13:32:26	376	173	XLON	00296402940TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	12:19:31	376	172.4	XLON	00296375174TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	12:18:29	86	172.6	XLON	00296374748TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	12:18:29	636	172.6	XLON	00296374747TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	11:32:01	376	171.2	XLON	00296346341TRLO0.1.1
21/04/2022	11:32:01	30	171.2	XLON	00296346340TRLO0.1.1

Enquiries:

DFS: (enquiries via Tulchan)	TULCHAN
Liz McDonald (Group Company Secretary)	James Macey-White
Peter McDonald (Investor Relations)	Jessica Reid
[e-mail]	[e-mail]

About DFS Furniture plc

The Group is the clear market-leading retailer of living room furniture in the United Kingdom. Our Group purpose is to bring great design and comfort into every living room, in an affordable, responsible and sustainable manner.  We operate an integrated physical and digital retail network of living room furniture showrooms and web sites in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands and Spain, trading through our leading brands, DFS, Sofology and Dwell. We attract customers through our targeted and national marketing activities and our reputation for high quality products and service, breadth of product offer and favourable consumer financing options.  We fulfil orders for our exclusive product ranges through our own three UK finished goods factories, and through manufacturing partners located in the UK, Europe and Far East, and delivered with care through our expert final-mile delivery service "The Sofa Delivery Company". 

 

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