Stock Exchange Announcements
Transfer of shares held in treasury
Tuesday 24 June 2008
FirstGroup plc (“the Company”) announces that on 23 June 2008 it transferred to participants in the Company’s employee SAYE scheme 17,148 ordinary shares for the maturity of the SAYE2004 scheme at a price of 267 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 343,113 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,724,057.