17th Jan 2005 17:35
Mitchells & Butlers PLC17 January 2005 17 January 2005 Mitchells & Butlers plc Purchase of Own Securities Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 17 January 2005 it purchased 250,000of its ordinary shares at a price of 333.345 pence per ordinary share. 125,000of these shares will be held as treasury shares and 125,000 shares will becancelled. The total number of Mitchells & Butlers shares in issue (after cancellation of125,000 shares and excluding treasury shares) is 521,156,073. Following theabove purchase, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 1,392,967 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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