Treasury Stock

RNS Number : 1151W

Sports Direct International Plc

24 January 2012

 



24 January 2012

Sports Direct International plc

("Sports Direct" or the "Company")

Sports Direct International plc announces that it has today transferred 22,000,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each from Treasury to the Sports Direct Employee Benefit Trust to satisfy awards made under the Sports Direct Employee Bonus Share Scheme 2009. The average price at which these shares were transferred from Treasury was at 234.5 pence per share.

Following the above transaction the Company now holds 42,000,000 ordinary shares in Treasury and the Sports Direct Employee Benefit Trust holds 30,000,000 shares in the Company.

The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding ordinary shares held in Treasury) is 598,602,369 

For further information, please contact:

Sports Direct International plc Rebecca Tylee-Birdsall Company Secretary

T. 0870 838 7309

 

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