21st Dec 2006 17:46
21 December 2006
Hays plc Notification of Transfer of Shares out of Treasury
Hays plc (the "Company") announces that on 21 December 2006, it transferred a total of 1,800,000 ordinary shares held by the Company in Treasury ("Treasury Shares") to the Hays plc Employee Share Trust (the "Trust") for the satisfaction of share awards and options held by employees under certain of the Company's share schemes. 1,200,000 Treasury Shares were transferred at 125p per share and the remaining 600,000 Treasury Shares were transferred for nil consideration.
As a consequence of that transfer, the Company now has a total of 1,461,564,852 ordinary shares in issue and holds 102,531,714 Treasury Shares. The Trust now holds 3,796,367 ordinary shares and, for the purposes of the Companies Act 1985, the executive directors of the Company are treated as being interested in these shares.
Alison Yapp
General Legal Counsel & Company Secretary
Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 7628 9999
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