Informa Share Buyback Programme

RNS Number : 1103D
Informa PLC
01 March 2022
 

Informa PLC Press Release

1 March 2022

Informa Share Buyback Programme

Update on GAP II shareholder returns

Informa (LSE: INF.L), the international B2B Markets, Knowledge Services and Business Intelligence Group today provided an update on its Share Buyback Programme that forms part of the 2021-2024 Growth Acceleration Plan II.

Growth Acceleration Plan II ("GAP II")

GAP II is Informa's four-year programme to create a more focused, higher growth business. This will see the Group accelerate investment in its two businesses with scale leadership positions, B2B Markets and Academic Markets, and divest of its Informa Intelligence portfolio of businesses.

Share Buyback Programme

Alongside investing for growth, the Group intends to return a proportion of divestment proceeds to shareholders. Following a binding agreement for the sale of its Pharma Intelligence business for £1.9bn on 10 February 2022, the Group commenced a Share Buyback Programme with an initial tranche of £100m.

As part of this initial tranche, on 28 February 2022, the Company purchased 1,309,731 ordinary shares for cancellation through Merrill Lynch International at an average price of 592.1822 pence per share.

The highest and lowest purchase price paid per share were 599.80p and 582.60p respectively, with the aggregate details of shares purchased by trading venue as outlined in the table below:

Trading venue

Weighted average price paid per share (GBp)

Aggregate number of shares purchased

Lowest price paid per share
(GBp)

Highest price paid per share
(GBp)

London Stock Exchange

593.0548

838,000

583.4000

599.6000

Turquoise

590.0656

50,319

583.2000

599.0000

Chi-X (CXE)

590.8630

335,000

582.6000

599.8000

BATS (BXE)

590.0670

86,412

583.0000

599.6000

Through the period of Informa's close period (30 days from the 13 February to 14 March 2022), Merrill Lynch International will make trading decisions in relation to the Company's securities independently of the Company. Any share purchases during this period will be undertaken within certain pre-set parameters and in accordance with the Company's general authority to repurchase shares, Chapter 12 of the Listing Rules and Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the 'Market Abuse Regulation').

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of the Market Abuse Regulation, a full breakdown of the individual trades made as part of the buyback programme is detailed in the attachment.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/1103D_1-2022-2-28.pdf

Enquiries

 

Richard Menzies-Gow, Director of IR & Communications

+44 (0) 20 8052 2787

Heledd Hanscomb, Deputy Company Secretary

+44 (0) 20 7017 5000

 

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