REG - Sage Group PLC - Treasury Stock <Origin Href="QuoteRef">SGE.L</Origin>

SageAnnouncement

03/03/2017 15:35

RNS Number : 5249Y
Sage Group PLC
03 March 2017
The Sage Group plc. ("the Company")
3 March 2017
Notification of Transfer of Shares Out of Treasury
The Company wishes to announce that on 3 March 2017, it transferred 1,019,166 ordinary shares of 14/77 pence each in the Company from Treasury to the trustee of The Sage Group plc Employee Benefit Trust at nil cost. The shares will be used to satisfy awards granted under the Company's employee share schemes.
Shares held in the Employee Benefit Trust carry no voting rights and therefore there is no change to the total voting rights.
The Company now has 38,503,265 ordinary shares held in Treasury.
End

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
  END
TRSUGUPWWUPMGAW