Wincanton Plc Transaction in Own Shares

 
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For Immediate Release                                        20 November 2015 
 
                                 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 purchased 500,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each 
in the Company today, 20 November 2015, at a price of 200 pence per share. The 
shares have been gifted to the Wincanton plc Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") for 
the purpose of satisfying future exercise of 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 23 July 2015. 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 1,803,488 ordinary shares of 10 
pence in the Company. 
 
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 
 
 
 
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November 20, 2015 11:19 ET (16:19 GMT)