27th Jan 2005 17:06
Mitchells & Butlers PLC27 January 2005 Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 27 January 2005 it purchased 450,000of its ordinary shares at a price of 322.3392 pence per ordinary share. 225,000of these shares will be held as treasury shares and 225,000 shares will becancelled. The total number of Mitchells & Butlers shares in issue (after cancellation of225,000 shares and excluding treasury shares) is 520,715,676. Following theabove purchase, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 1,733,364 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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