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National GridAnnouncement

04/01/2018 17:50

RNS Number : 0319B
National Grid PLC
04 January 2018
4 January 2018
National Grid plc ("National Grid")
ISIN Code: GB00BDR05C01
Transaction in Own Shares
National Grid announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 12204/473p each on the London Stock Exchange from Barclays Capital Securities Limited ("Barclays") as part of its buy-back programme announced on 9 October 2017. The sole purpose of the programme is, as previously announced, to reduce the share capital of National Grid as part of the return of proceeds to shareholders following the sale of a majority interest in National Grid's UK gas distribution business. 
Date of purchase:
4 January 2018
Number of Ordinary shares of 12204/473p each purchased:
2,000,000
Highest price paid per share (pence):
858.2793
Lowest price paid per share (pence): 
858.2793
Volume weighted average price paid per share:
858.2793
National Grid intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, National Grid holds 247,254,036of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 3,370,316,089ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). 
A schedule of individual trades carried out by Barclays (BARCGBN1) as principal in connection with the above purchases on 4 January 2018 is attached to this announcement.
Schedule of purchases - aggregate information 
Trading venue
Volume weighted average price
(pence per share)
Aggregated volume 
BATS Europe
 859.3054 
 46,889 
Chi-X Europe
 858.3968 
 924,273 
Turquoise
 858.7492 
 29,121 
London Stock Exchange
 858.4252 
 999,717 
Schedule of purchases - individual transactions
To view the details of the individual transactions, please paste the following URL into the address bar of your browser:
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0319B_-2018-1-4.pdf
This announcement will also be available on National Grid's website at http://investors.nationalgrid.com/rns.aspx.
Enquiries to:
C James, Company Secretarial Assistant, (0207 004 3116).

This information is provided by RNS
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