Transaction in Own Shares

01 August 2014

WPP plc ("WPP")

Purchase of Own Securities

WPP announces that on 01 August 2014 it purchased 150,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 1173.5331 pence per ordinary share. All of these shares will be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, WPP holds 16,983,440 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of WPP shares in issue is 1,319,756,578 (excluding shares to be held in treasury).