25th Mar 2009 10:51
Wednesday 25 March 2009
BT GROUP PLC
TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES - VOTING RIGHTS AND CAPITAL
BT Group plc announces that it has today transferred in connection with its employee share plans 2,000,000 ordinary shares at nil cost. The transferred shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.
BT Group plc's capital consists of 8,151,227,029 ordinary shares with voting rights. Following the above transfer, BT Group plc holds 406,435,127 ordinary shares as treasury shares. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc is 7,744,791,902
The above figure (7,744,791,902) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, BT Group plc under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
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