Transfer of shares held in treasury

25th Sep 2008 10:41

25 September 2008 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 24 September 2008 it transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 1,118 ordinary shares (535 for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006 scheme at a price of 325 pence per share and 583 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 285,427 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,781,743.

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