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Share Buyback and Total Voting Rights
Share Buyback and Total Voting Rights.
About this update from Character Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 3022Z Character Group PLC 14 December 2017 \n\n \nThursday, 14 December 2017\n \n \nThe Character Group plc\n(\"Character Group\" or the \"Company\")\n \nTransaction in Own Shares\n \nIn continuing its stated objective to enhance shareholder value, the Company announces that, on 13 December 2017, it bought-back for cancellation 25,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the Company (\"Ordinary Shares\") in the market at a price of 438 pence per Ordinary Share. The Ordinary Shares acquired for cancellation represent approximately 0.12 per cent. of the current issued share capital of the Company (excluding shares held in treasury).\nFor the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the total number of Ordinary Shares in issue as at the date of this notice (taking into account the Ordinary Shares purchased for cancellation by the Company announced above and excluding Ordinary Shares held in treasury) is 20,882,602 (\"Revised Issued Voting Share Capital\").\nThe Company has an unutilised capacity to buy back up to a further 2,635,200 Ordinary Shares under the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting on 20 January 2017.\nCharacter Group holds 3,027,506 Ordinary Shares in treasury which do not carry voting rights and these represent approximately 14.5 per cent. of the Revised Issued Voting Share Capital.\nThe figure of 20,882,602 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest, or change to their interest, in the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.\nIn accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the schedule below contains a summary of and detailed information about the purchases made by Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited on behalf of the Group as part of the buy-back programme.\nSchedule 1: Summary of buy-back transactions\n\n\n\n\nDate of purchase:\n\n\n13 December 2017\n\n\n\n\nNumber of Ordinary Shares purchased:\n\n\n25,000\n\n\n\n\nHighest price paid per share (pence)\n\n\n438\n\n\n\n\nLowest price paid per share (pence)\n\n\n438\n\n\n\n\nAverage price paid per share (pence)\n\n\n438\n\n\n\n\n \nSchedule 2: Details of buy-back transactions\n\n\n\n\nTime (hh:mm - G...