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RNS Number : 5726U  Unilever PLC  03 December 2021

Unilever completes share buyback programme

3 December 2021

 

London - Unilever PLC announces the successful completion of the second
tranche of its share buyback programme initially announced on 29 April 2021
(the 'Second Tranche'). Under the Second Tranche, which began on 23 August
2021, 32,508,415 Unilever PLC shares were purchased with a total value
equivalent of approximately €1,499,999,934.

 

Under the first tranche of this buyback programme, which began on 6 May 2021
and completed on 13 August 2021, 30,467,730 Unilever PLC shares were
purchased.

 

All of the shares purchased in the buyback programme have been placed in
treasury. As a result, Unilever PLC holds a total of 62,976,145 shares in
treasury and has a total of 2,566,267,627 non-treasury shares in issue. Of the
non-treasury shares in issue, a total of 5,301,252 shares (including shares
represented by Unilever PLC ADSs) are held by or on behalf of companies in the
Unilever group (the 'Unilever Group Shares'). The voting rights attaching to
the Unilever Group Shares are not exercisable.

 

With the completion of the Second Tranche, Unilever has delivered on its
intention, as announced on 29 April 2021, to buy back shares with an aggregate
market value equivalent of up to €3 billion.

 

Please see the total voting rights announcement dated 1 December 2021 for
Unilever PLC's latest total voting rights figure published under the UK
Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rule 5.

 

 

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