2nd Jul 2007 17:25
BRIT Insurance Holdings PLC02 July 2007 2 July 2007 Brit Insurance Holdings PLC Transaction in own shares Brit Insurance Holdings PLC ("the Company"), the UK-domiciledinternational general insurer and reinsurer, announces that in accordance withparagraph 12.4.6R of the Listing Rules and paragraph 5.5.1R of the Disclosureand Transparency Rules it has today purchased 150,000 Ordinary Shares of 75peach at an average price of 343.25 pence per share. The highest price and lowest price paid for these shares were 346.25 pence and340.00 pence respectively. All the purchased shares will all be held asTreasury shares. Following the above purchase, the Company holds 11,753,000 Ordinary Shares inTreasury. The number of Ordinary Shares purchased represents 3.56% of the votingrights attributable to the total Ordinary Shares in issue prior to suchpurchases. The Company has 318,011,397 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding Treasuryshares). The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for thecalculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify theirinterest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Disclosureand Transparency Rules. For enquiries: Alex CarterRobert Redshaw Citigroup Global Markets Limited0207 9864000 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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