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Hays (HAS)

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Index:

FTSE 250

Market Cap

£894.25m

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Share Price

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Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 6660B
Hays PLC
19 August 2008
 



Hays plc

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Purchase of own shares

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Hays plc announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £0.01 each on the London Stock Exchange via UBS Investment Bank.


Ordinary shares:                                                                                           
 
Date of purchase:                                                                 19 August 2008
           
Number of ordinary shares purchased:                              50,000           
 
Highest price paid per share:                                              89.75p
 
Lowest price paid per share:                                               88.75p
 
Volume weighted average price per share:                       89.3134p


Hays intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury.


Following the purchase of these shares, Hays holds 88,314,736 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 1,375,781,830 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

    


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