Howden Joinery Group Plc - Transaction in Own Shares 

Howden Joinery Group Plc (the "Company") announces that on 31 July 2015 it purchased through J.P. Morgan Securities plc the following number of its ordinary shares at an average price of 491.34p per share:

The purchased shares will be held as treasury shares. Following the above transaction, the Company holds 2,000,000 ordinary shares in treasury, and has 649,830,815 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of LR 12.4.6.

Enquiries should be directed to:

Forbes McNaughton

Company Secretary

020 7535 1137