1st Feb 2005 17:18
Mitchells & Butlers PLC01 February 2005 Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 1 February 2005 it purchased 230,000of its ordinary shares at a price of 326.68 pence per ordinary share. 115,000 ofthese shares will be held as treasury shares and 115,000 shares will becancelled. The total number of Mitchells & Butlers shares in issue (after cancellation of115,000 shares and excluding treasury shares) is 519,315,676. Following theabove purchase, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 2,208,364 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. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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