11th Jan 2005 17:21
Mitchells & Butlers PLC11 January 2005 11 January 2005 Mitchells & Butlers plc Purchase of Own Securities Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 11 January 2005 it purchased 350,000of its ordinary shares at a price of 329.8571 pence per ordinary share. 175,000of these shares will be held as treasury shares and 175,000 shares will becancelled. The total number of Mitchells & Butlers shares in issue (after cancellation of175,000 shares and excluding treasury shares) is 521,831,299. Following theabove purchase, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 1,067,741 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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