Transfer of shares held in treasury

9 Jan 2012 12:07

9 January 2012 FirstGroup plc Transfer of shares held in treasury

FirstGroup plc ("the Company") announces that on 9 January 2012 it transferred to participants in the Company's employee SAYE scheme 639 ordinary shares (485 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2008 scheme at a price of 371 pence per share and 154 ordinary shares for the early exercise of options under the SAYE 2009 scheme at a price of 310 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 264,274 of its ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares in issue excluding treasury shares is 481,802,896.