Transaction in Own Shares

3rd Sep 2009 07:00



3rd September 2009

RE-ISSUE OF TREASURY SHARES 

CRH plc announces that on 2nd September 2009 it transferred to participants in its employee share schemes 4,988 Ordinary Shares at prices of €11.8573 and €13.0295 and at prices of £8.7104 and £14.1386 per Ordinary Share.

Following the above transactions, CRH plc holds 14,514,783 Ordinary Shares in Treasury. The number of Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding Treasury Shares) is 692,663,657. .

Contact

Neil Colgan

Company Secretary 

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

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