Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 2051P

National Grid PLC

14 August 2014

 



14 August 2014

National Grid plc (National Grid)

Transaction in Own Shares

National Grid announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 11^17/43p each on the London Stock Exchange.

Date of purchase:	14 August 2014
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	600,000
Price paid per share (pence):	868.6031 pence

National Grid intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the purchase of these shares, National Grid holds 116,901,807 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,737,437,877 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

Contact: D Whincup, Company Secretarial Assistant, (0207 004 3209).

 

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