23rd May 2008 16:09
23 May 2008 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury
FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 23 May 2008 it transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 16,817 ordinary shares (12,946 for the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of 267 pence per share, 2,335 for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006 scheme at a price of 325 pence per share and 1,536 for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006B scheme at a price of 444 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 378,254 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,688,916.
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