Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9836L
MITIE Group PLC
19 August 2013
 



19 August 2013

MITIE Group PLC

 

 

MITIE Group PLC (the "Company") - Transaction in own Shares

 

Pursuant to the general authority given to the Company by shareholders, the Company announces that it has purchased ordinary shares of 2.5p ("Shares") each as follows:

 

Date of purchase: 16 August 2013

 

Number of Shares purchased: 100,000

 

Highest price paid: 276.5p

 

Lowest price paid: 271.1p

 

The purchase represented an average price of 275p per Share.

 

The purchased Shares will be held in treasury rather than being cancelled, so that they can be reissued at a later date, if required. Following this purchase, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 367,153,466 and the total number of shares held in treasury is 1,027,107.  The Board has approved the purchase of Shares in order to offset the increase in share numbers anticipated from the issue of Shares in connection with the Company's share schemes.

 

 

Notes to editors

For further information, please contact:

John Telling, Group Corporate Affairs Director

T: 020 3123 8673 M: 07979 701006

Erica Lockhart, Investor, Public and Media Relations Manager
T: 020 3123 8675 M: 07979 784488

 


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