18th Jan 2005 17:19
Mitchells & Butlers PLC18 January 2005 18 January 2005 Mitchells & Butlers plc Purchase of Own Securities Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 18 January 2005 it purchased 350,000of its ordinary shares at a price of 331.5107 pence per ordinary share. 175,000of these shares will be held as treasury shares and 175,000 shares will becancelled. The total number of Mitchells & Butlers shares in issue (after cancellation of175,000 shares and excluding treasury shares) is 520,806,073. Following theabove purchase, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 1,567,967 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. ENDS This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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