Centaur Media PLC Transaction in Own Shares (6163K)

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RNS Number : 6163K

Centaur Media PLC

23 September 2016

Centaur Media Plc

(the "Company")

Transaction in own shares

Centaur Media Plc (LSE: CAU) announces that on 22 September 2016 it purchased through Numis Securities Ltd the following number of its ordinary shares at an average price of 43.8532p per share:

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 10,000

Average price: 43.8532p

Highest purchase price paid per share: 44.00p

Lowest purchase price paid per share: 43.50p

The purchased shares will be held in treasury.

Following the above transactions, the Company has 150,207,960 ordinary shares in issue and holds 6,522,090 ordinary shares in treasury. Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 143,685,870 which may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Centaur Media Plc under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the schedule below contains detailed information about the purchases made by Numis Securities Ltd on behalf of the Company as part of its buyback programme.

For further enquiries:

Centaur Media Plc

Grainne Brankin, Company Secretary 020 7970 4000

Investor Relations

Neville Harris, IR focus 07909 976 044

Schedule of Purchases - Individual Transactions

 
 Number of    Transaction    Time of transaction   Execution 
  shares       price                                venue 
  purchased    (per share) 
-----------  -------------  --------------------  ---------- 
 2500         44.00          15:07:57              XLON 
-----------  -------------  --------------------  ---------- 
 874          43.75          15:48:14              BATE 
-----------  -------------  --------------------  ---------- 
 4126         44.00          15:48:14              XLON 
-----------  -------------  --------------------  ---------- 
 2500         43.50          15:50:30              XLON 
-----------  -------------  --------------------  ---------- 
 

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