Wincanton Plc Transaction in Own Shares

 
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For Immediate Release                                         4 February 2016 
 
                                 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 53,361 ordinary shares of 10 pence 
each in the Company today, 4 February 2016, at a price of 170 pence per share. 
 
The 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 16 July 2015 and a subsequent announcement made on 3 February 2016. 
 
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 1,010,337 ordinary shares of 10 
pence in the Company. 
 
This 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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