13 Jun 2008 17:42
Hays plc
Purchase of own shares
Hays plc announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £0.01 each on the London Stock Exchange via ABN AMRO Bank NV.
Ordinary shares:
Date of purchase: 13 June 2008
Number of ordinary shares purchased: 800,000
Highest price paid per share: 99.25p
Lowest price paid per share: 96.9p
Volume weighted average price paid per share: 98.17p
Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.
Following the purchases of these shares, Hays holds 83,897,725 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 1,380,198,841 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).