Stock Exchange Announcements
Transfer of shares held in treasury
Wednesday 27 August 2008
FirstGroup plc (“the Company”) announces that on 26 August 2008 it transferred to participants in the Company’s employee SAYE scheme 425 ordinary shares for the maturity of shares under 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 286,545 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,780,625.