5th Mar 2007 17:29
Mitchells & Butlers PLC05 March 2007 5 March 2007 Mitchells & Butlers plc Purchase of Own Securities Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that on 5 March 2007 it purchased 360,000 ofits ordinary shares at a price of 694.770833 pence per ordinary share. All ofthese shares will be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase and the release of 1,605 shares from treasury tosatisfy option exercises by non-directors, Mitchells & Butlers plc holds 738,174ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of Mitchells & Butlersshares in issue is 403,041,519 (excluding shares to be held in treasury). 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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