Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust
plc
Market Purchase by the Company of its
own Ordinary Shares
The Board of Aberforth Smaller
Companies Trust plc (“ASCoT”) hereby gives notification that,
pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of
the Company held on 1 March 2016 to
make market purchases of the Company’s own shares, a market
purchase of 40,000 Ordinary shares of the Company was made today,
23 August 2016, at a price of 1034p
per share.
Following the purchase and cancellation
of the above shares, 94,639,792 Ordinary shares will remain in
issue. A total of 323,000 Ordinary shares have been purchased and
cancelled under the above authority.
For further information contact:
David Holland, Aberforth Partners
LLP,
telephone: 0131 220 0733.
Aberforth Partners LLP, Secretaries –
23 August 2016