8th Feb 2005 17:35
Mitchells & Butlers PLC08 February 2005 Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 8 February 2005 it purchased 100,000of its ordinary shares at a price of 340.9247 pence per ordinary share. 50,000of these shares will be held as treasury shares and 50,000 shares will becancelled. The total number of Mitchells & Butlers shares in issue (after cancellation of50,000 shares and excluding treasury shares) is 518,708,892. Following the abovepurchase, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 2,340,148 ordinary shares as treasuryshares. It is intended that the shares held as treasury shares will be used to meetobligations of Mitchells & Butlers under employee share option schemes. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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