Wincanton Plc Transaction in Own Shares

 
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For Immediate Release                                        10 February 2017 
 
                                 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 30,000 shares of 10 pence each in the 
Company on 10 February 2017 at a price of 2.55 pence per share. 
 
All of these 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 21 July 2016 and a subsequent announcement made on 3 
February 2017. 
 
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 404,098 ordinary shares of 10 
pence in the Company. 
 
Notifications will be made when any share purchases have been made in 
accordance with Listing Rules. 
 
The information contained within this announcement is deemed to constitute 
inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596 
/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement, this inside information is 
now considered to be in the public domain. 
 
                                     ENDS 
 
For further information, please contact: 
 
Wincanton plc 
Tim Lawlor, Chief Financial Officer         01249 710 000 
 
Buchanan 
Richard Oldworth, Vicky Haydn, Jane Glover        020 7466 5000 
 
 
 
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