Stock Exchange Announcements
Transfer of shares held in treasury
Monday 4 August 2008
FirstGroup plc (“the Company”) announces that on 4 August 2008 it transferred to participants in the Company’s employee SAYE scheme 4,253 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 289,880 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,777,290.