REG - Essentra plc - Transaction in Own Shares

EssentraAnnouncement

06/04/2023 07:00

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RNS Number : 5581V  Essentra plc  06 April 2023

6 April 2023

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 5 April 2023 it
purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the
Company ("Ordinary Shares") from Peel Hunt LLP as part of the buyback
programme announced on 29 March 2023 (the "Buyback Programme").

 

 ESSENTRA ORD 25P
 Date of purchase:                                    05/04/2023
 Aggregate number of Ordinary 25p Shares purchased:   283,683
 Lowest price paid per share (GBp):                   187.0300
 Highest price paid per share (GBp):                  188.5000
 Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):  187.8406
 Broker                                               PEEL HUNT

 

Essentra intends to hold the purchased Ordinary Shares in treasury.

Following the settlement of the above purchases, Essentra has purchased a
total of 1,185,639 Ordinary Shares since the commencement of the Buyback
Programme and will have 302,590,708 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue.
2,083,583 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The figure 300,507,125
represents the total number of voting rights in Essentra and can 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 change to their
interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure
and Transparency Rules.

 

 Trading Venue                 Volume-weighted average price paid per share (Gbp)  Aggregated number of shares purchased
 BATS (BATE)                   -                                                   -
 BATS (BATP)                   -                                                   -
 Chi-X (CHIX)                  -                                                   -
 Chi-X (CHID)                  -                                                   -
 London Stock Exchange (XLON)  187.8406                                            283,683
 Total                         187.8406                                            283,683

 

 

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as such
Regulation has become part of domestic law by virtue of and for the purposes
of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended by the European Union
(Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020) and as such Regulation has been amended in
such form by any regulations made under that Act), the schedule below contains
detailed and aggregated information of the individual trades made by Peel Hunt
LLP as part of the Buyback Programme.

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule
12.4.6.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Essentra plc

Emma Reid, Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0)1908 359100

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

 Number of shares purchased  Transaction price (Gbp)  Market / Sytematic Internaliser  Time of transaction              Trade ID
 25000                       188.18                   XLON                             20230405 09:32:59.794107 +0100s  00147198019TRLO0
 100000                      188.5                    XLON                             20230405 12:13:14.860514 +0100s  00147213523TRLO0
 44585                       187.03                   XLON                             20230405 13:36:24.493928 +0100s  00147220373TRLO0
 30000                       187.8                    XLON                             20230405 14:50:23.800891 +0100s  00147228238TRLO0
 84098                       187.4                    XLON                             20230405 16:01:03.851974 +0100s  00147238279TRLO0

 

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