Transfer of shares held in treasury

31st Jan 2011 16:51

31 January 2011 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 31 January 2011 it transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 99 ordinary shares (64 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 pence per share and 35 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of 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 970,939 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,096,231.

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