| For Immediate Release |
17 November 2015 |
Wincanton plc
('Wincanton' or
the 'Company)
Transaction in own
shares
Wincanton plc, a leading provider of supply chain solutions in
the UK and Ireland, announces that
it purchased 500,000 ordinary shares of 10
pence each in the Company on 17
November 2015 at a price of 200
pence per share. The shares have been gifted to the
Wincanton plc Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") for the purpose of
satisfying future exercise of awards under the Company's employee
share incentive schemes, pursuant to the authorisation granted to
the Company by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM)
held on 16 July 2015 and a subsequent
announcement made on 23 July 2015.
The Executive Directors and PDMRs of the Company are included in
the potential beneficiaries of the EBT and are deemed to have
interest in some of those shares and the dealings thereof.
Following this transaction the EBT will hold 1,303,488 ordinary
shares of 10 pence in the
Company.
Notification is made in accordance with Listing Rule 12.4.6.
For further information please contact:
Wincanton plc
Adrian Colman, Chief Executive
Tim Lawlor, Group Finance Director
01249 710
000
Buchanan
Richard Oldworth, Gabriella
Clinkard, Jane Glover
020 7466 5000