24th Jan 2014 14:50
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC
Imperial Tobacco was informed on 23 January 2014 of the transfer, on 17 January 2014, by way of gift of 2,000,000 (two million) of its ordinary shares, which were held in treasury, to the Imperial Tobacco Group 2001 Employee Benefit Trust.
The shares will be used to satisfy awards outstanding under the Company's employee share plans.
Following the above transfer, Imperial Tobacco holds 103,787,165 ordinary shares in treasury.
The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held in treasury) is 964,155,716.
T M Williams
Deputy Company Secretary
Copies of our announcements are available on our website: www.imperial-tobacco.com
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