Firstgroup Regulatory News (FGP)

6 Jan 2010 16:01

6 January 2010 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 6 January 2010 it transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 11,884 ordinary shares (10,651 ordinary shares for the exercise of options of the SAYE 2006 scheme at a price of 325 pence per share, 854 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE2006B scheme at a price of 444 pence per share, 315 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2007 scheme at a price of 583 pence per share and 64 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options of the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 pence per share). The shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.

Following the above transfer of shares out of treasury, the Company holds a total of 977,147 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,090,023.