REG - Essentra plc - Transaction in Own Shares

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24/04/2023 07:15

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RNS Number : 1381X  Essentra plc  24 April 2023

24 April 2023

ESSENTRA PLC

Transaction in Own Shares

Essentra plc ("Essentra", or the "Company") announces that on 21 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:                                    21/04/2023
 Aggregate number of Ordinary 25p Shares purchased:   264,288
 Lowest price paid per share (GBp):                   191.6000
 Highest price paid per share (GBp):                  195.0000
 Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):  193.7359
 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 3,897,553 Ordinary Shares since the commencement of the Buyback
Programme and will have 302,590,708 Ordinary Shares of 25 pence each in issue.
4,795,497 Ordinary Shares are held in treasury. The figure 297,795,211
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)  193.7359                                            264,288
 Total                         193.7359                                            264,288

 

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
 50000                       191.6                    XLON                             20230421 09:54:34.482093 +0100s  00147865636TRLO0
 100000                      193.8                    XLON                             20230421 10:58:07.570701 +0100s  00147871285TRLO0
 50000                       195                      XLON                             20230421 12:57:18.511662 +0100s  00147879295TRLO0
 25000                       194.4                    XLON                             20230421 14:51:19.914638 +0100s  00147889614TRLO0
 11778                       194.4                    XLON                             20230421 15:21:17.033492 +0100s  00147893399TRLO0
 27510                       194.2                    XLON                             20230421 16:25:03.064869 +0100s  00147902086TRLO0

 

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