7th Feb 2005 17:12
Mitchells & Butlers PLC07 February 2005 Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 7 February 2005 it purchased 400,000of its ordinary shares at a price of 338.4571 pence per ordinary share. 200,000of these shares will be held as treasury shares and 200,000 shares will becancelled. The total number of Mitchells & Butlers shares in issue (after cancellation of200,000 shares and excluding treasury shares) is 518,737,911. Following theabove purchase, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 2,361,129 ordinary shares astreasury shares. It is intended that the shares held as treasury shares will be used to meetobligations of Mitchells & Butlers under employee share option schemes. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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