Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 7997T
Wolseley PLC
31 March 2016
 

 

Transaction in Own Shares

 

Wolseley plc (the "Company") announces that it has purchased, in accordance with the authority granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 1 December 2015, the following number of its ordinary shares of 10 53/66 pence each ("Shares") as part of the share repurchase programme announced on 29 September 2015:

 

Date of purchase:                                           31 March 2016

 

Number of Shares purchased:                       100,000

 

Highest price paid per Share:                         3,961 pence

 

Lowest price paid per Share:                          3,934 pence

 

Average price paid per Share:                        3,944.31 pence

 

The Company intends to hold these Shares in Treasury.

 

Including Shares which have been purchased but not yet settled, the Company holds 11,749,174 Shares in Treasury.

 

The Company has 254,886,932 Shares in issue (excluding Shares held in Treasury and including 9,843 Shares transferred out of Treasury on 31 March 2016 as announced earlier today). This number represents the total voting rights in the Company and may 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 a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Wolseley plc

 

John Martin, Chief Financial Officer   

+41(0) 41723 2230

Mark Fearon, Director of Communications and Investor Relations

+41(0) 41723 2230


+44(0) 7711 875070

 


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