Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 1711I
DFS Furniture PLC
01 December 2022
 

1 December 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 Peel Hunt LLP pursuant to its current Share Buyback Programme, details of which were announced on 15 September 2022.

 

 

Date of purchase:

30/11/2022

Aggregate number of Ordinary GBP0.10 Shares purchased:

239,959

Lowest price paid per share (GBp):

157.00

Highest price paid per share (GBp):

158.00

Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):

157.55

Broker

Peel Hunt LLP

 

DFS intends to retain the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transaction, the Company will have 240,678,120 ordinary shares of £0.10 each in issue. The total number of shares held by the Company in treasury is 2,584,485.

Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company is 238,093,635 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 & Time

Volume

Price (Gbp)

Platform

Transaction Reference Number

20221130 13:21:43.946784 +0000

50,677

157.00

XLON

00142194842TRLO0

20221130 14:54:53.970659 +0000

39,282

158.00

XLON

00142205836TRLO0

20221130 15:07:34.012027 +0000

92,074

158.00

XLON

00142207290TRLO0

20221130 15:40:01.657300 +0000

57,926

157.00

XLON

00142211031TRLO0

 

Enquiries:

DFS:

TULCHAN

Liz McDonald (Group Company Secretary)

James Macey-White

Phil Hutchinson (Investor Relations)

  Jessica Reid

investor.relations@dfs.co.uk

dfs@tulchangroup.com

About DFS Furniture plc

Our Group purpose is to bring great design and comfort into every home, in an affordable, responsible and sustainable manner.  We operate an integrated physical and digital retail network of furniture showrooms and web sites in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, trading through our leading brands, DFS, Sofology and Dwell.  The Group is the clear market-leading retailer of upholstered furniture in the United Kingdom.  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 Limited".

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