Wincanton Plc Transaction in Own Shares

 
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For Immediate Release                                         5 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  purchased a further 72,161 shares of 10 pence each 
in the Company on 4 February 2016 at a price of 175 pence per share, and that 
it has purchased 874,478 shares of 10p each in the Company today, 5 February 
2016, at a price of 177 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 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 1,956,976 ordinary shares of 10 
pence in the Company. 
 
This notification is made in accordance with Listing Rule 12.4.6. 
 
                                      END 
 
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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February 05, 2016 06:33 ET (11:33 GMT)