Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 8219W
Essentra plc
20 April 2023
 

20 April 2023

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 19 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 5P


Date of purchase:

19/04/2023

Aggregate number of Ordinary 10.5p Shares purchased:

273,306

Lowest price paid per share (GBp):

192.0000

Highest price paid per share (GBp):

193.0000

Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):

192.3622

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 3,363,773 Ordinary Shares since the commencement of the Buyback Programme and will have 302,590,708 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue. 4,261,717 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The figure 298,328,991 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)

192.3622

273,306

Total

192.3622

273,306

 

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

150000

192.3

XLON

20230419 11:08:40.691770 +0100s

00147764396TRLO0

25000

193

XLON

20230419 11:59:33.418891 +0100s

00147768119TRLO0

50000

192

XLON

20230419 13:29:56.774009 +0100s

00147773372TRLO0

48306

192.6

XLON

20230419 15:18:57.855498 +0100s

00147786724TRLO0

 

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