William Hill PLC Transaction in Own Shares (9941M)

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RNS Number : 9941M

William Hill PLC

19 October 2016

Transaction in Own Shares

William Hill PLC ("William Hill") announces that it has purchased the following William Hill Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each from its corporate broker Citigroup Global Markets Limited ("Citi") today:

 
 Number of Ordinary 
  Shares acquired       333,200 
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 Average price paid     GBP3.002302 
  per Ordinary Share 
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 Highest price paid     GBP3.0480 
  per Ordinary Share 
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 Lowest price paid      GBP2.9880 
  per Ordinary Share 
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 Date and timing        19 October 2016; 
  of transactions        08:07 - 16:35 
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 Trading venue          London Stock 
                         Exchange; BATS; 
                         Chi-X; Turquoise 
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 Company ISIN           GB0031698896 
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The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, William Hill holds 18,435,576 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 868,763,033 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a schedule of individual trades by Citi is available using the following link: http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/9941M_-2016-10-19.pdf

Tom Fuller

Assistant Company Secretary

([phone]

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