William Hill PLC Transaction in Own Shares (0174R)

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RNS Number : 0174R

William Hill PLC

05 December 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       500,000 
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 Average price paid     GBP2.986947 
  per Ordinary Share 
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 Highest price paid     GBP3.0090 
  per Ordinary Share 
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 Lowest price paid      GBP2.9665 
  per Ordinary Share 
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 Date and timing        5 December 2016; 
  of transactions        08.32 - 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 23,964,375 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 863,275,240 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/0174R_-2016-12-5.pdf

Tom Fuller

Assistant Company Secretary

([phone]

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