Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc
25 April 2023
 

25 April 2023

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 24 April 2023 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") from Peel Hunt LLP as part of the buyback programme announced on 29 March 2023 (the "Buyback Programme").

ESSENTRA ORD 25P


Date of purchase:

24/04/2023

Aggregate number of Ordinary 25p Shares purchased:

243,768

Lowest price paid per share (GBp):

196.6000

Highest price paid per share (GBp):

197.0000

Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):

196.8813

Broker

PEEL HUNT

 

Essentra intends to hold the purchased Ordinary Shares in treasury.

Following the settlement of the above purchases, Essentra has purchased a total of 4,141,321 Ordinary Shares since the commencement of the Buyback Programme and will have 302,590,708 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue. 5,039,265 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The figure 297,551,443 represents the total number of voting rights in Essentra and can be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.     

Trading Venue

Volume-weighted average price paid per share (Gbp)

Aggregated number of shares purchased

BATS (BATE)

-

-

BATS (BATP)

-

-

Chi-X (CHIX)

-

-

Chi-X (CHID)

-

-

London Stock Exchange (XLON)

196.8813

243,768

Total

196.8813

243,768

 

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as such Regulation has become part of domestic law by virtue of and for the purposes of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020) and as such Regulation has been amended in such form by any regulations made under that Act), the schedule below contains detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by Peel Hunt LLP as part of the Buyback Programme.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Essentra plc

Emma Reid, Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0)1908 359100

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

Number of shares purchased

Transaction price (Gbp)

Market / Sytematic Internaliser

Time of transaction

Trade ID

72364

196.6

XLON

20230424 10:49:19.991365 +0100s

00147927838TRLO0

36404

197

XLON

20230424 15:04:00.000000 +0100s

00147953539TRLO0

135000

197

XLON

20230424 15:05:25.576464 +0100s

00147950493TRLO0

 

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