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Commencement of treasury buyback programme
Commencement of treasury buyback programme.
About this update from Dfs Furniture Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 0945A DFS Furniture plc 02 June 2016 \n\n2 June 2016 For immediate release \n \nDFS Furniture plc (\"DFS\" and the \"Group\")\n \nCommencement of treasury buyback programme \n \nThe Board of DFS Furniture plc (\"DFS\" or the \"Company\") has decided to purchase a number of shares under its existing buyback authority to be held in treasury with the expectation that they will be utilised to satisfy employee share based award obligations as and when required.\n \nAs part of this, DFS announces that on 2 June 2016, it purchased for treasury 30,000 ordinary shares of 150p each at an average price of 290.57 pence per share.\n \nThe highest price paid was 292.50p and lowest price paid was 287.90p.\nIn accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1A, following this purchase, there are 30,000 shares held in treasury and the total number of voting rights in DFS is 213,000,601 ordinary shares of 150p each.\nThe above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, DFS under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.\nEnquiries: \nDFS (enquiries via FTI Consulting) \nIan Filby (CEO)\nBill Barnes (Finance Director)\nMike Schmidt (Director of Corporate Affairs) investor.r...