Transfer of shares held in treasury

9th Feb 2011 14:24

9 February 2011 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 9 February 2011 it transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,710 ordinary shares (1,165 ordinary shares for the exercise of options on the maturity of the SAYE 2007 scheme at a price of 583 pence per share, 336 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 pence per share and 209 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2009 scheme at a price of 310 pence per share). The shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a total of 969,032 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,098,138.

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