| For Immediate Release |
4 February 2016 |
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 has purchased 53,361 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company today, 4 February 2016, at a price of 170 pence per share.
The shares have been gifted to the Wincanton plc Employee
Benefit Trust ("EBT") for the purpose of satisfying future
exercises of share option 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 3 February
2016.
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 1,010,337 ordinary
shares of 10 pence in the
Company.
This 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