18th Oct 2016 17:55
Transaction in Own Shares
William Hill PLC ("William Hill") announces that it has purchased the following William Hill Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each from its corporate broker Citigroup Global Markets Limited ("Citi"), in accordance with the share repurchase programme announced to the market on 26 February 2016, and which recommenced today:
Number of Ordinary Shares acquired | 325,000 |
Average price paid per Ordinary Share | £3.074753 |
Highest price paid per Ordinary Share | £3.1480 |
Lowest price paid per Ordinary Share | £3.0400 |
Date and timing of transactions | 18 October 2016; 08:09 - 16:35 |
Trading venue | London Stock Exchange |
Company ISIN | GB0031698896 |
The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares.
Following the above purchase, William Hill holds 18,102,376 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 869,091,561 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a schedule of individual trades by Citi is available using the following link: http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/8831M_1-2016-10-18.pdf
Tom Fuller
Assistant Company Secretary
(+44) 020 8918 3723
Related Shares:
WMH.L