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2025 SHARE BUYBACK PROGRAMME – SECOND TRANCHE
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC announced the commencement of a second tranche of its 2025 share buyback program, intending to return a further £250 million of capital to shareholders. This second tranche will begin following the completion of the first tranche, anticipated in October 2025, and is expected to conclude by January 30, 2026. The company has an agreement with BNP Paribas to manage the second tranche, purchasing ordinary shares up to £250 million. Reckitt may purchase no more than 68,400,000 Ordinary Shares. Shares repurchased under the Second Tranche will be held in Treasury until completion, at which time they will be cancelled. Disclaimer*
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n26 September 2025\n \nRECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC\n \n2025 SHARE BUYBACK PROGRAMME - SECOND TRANCHE\n \nOn 24 July 2025, Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (\"Reckitt\" or the \"Company\") announced its latest £1 billion 2025 share buyback programme (the \"Programme\") to complete over the next 12 months, the purpose of which is to increase returns to shareholders and to reduce the share capital of Reckitt. On 28 July 2025, Reckitt announced the details of a first tranche of the Programme to return up to £250 million of capital to shareholders (the \"First Tranche\").\n \nIn accordance with the Company's general authority to make market purchases of existing ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the share capital of the Company (the \"Ordinary Shares\") as granted by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 8 May 2025, the Company will purchase no more than 68,400,000 Ordinary Shares.\n \nReckitt today announces its intention to commence a second tranche of the Programme (the \"Second Tranche\") which will return a further £250m of capital to shareholders, to begin on the day following completion of the First Tranche (anticipated being during October 2025) and which is expected to end no later than 30 January 2026. All shares repurchased under the Second Tranche will be held in Treasury until completion of the Second Tranche at which time they will be cancelled.\n \nReckitt announces that it has entered into an agreement with BNP Paribas under which it has issued an instruction to BNP Paribas to manage the second tranche of the Programme. BNP Paribas will, acting as riskless principal, purchase Ordinary Shares for an aggregate purchase price of no greater than £250 million and will simultaneously sell such Ordinary Shares on to the Company.\n \nAny purchase of Ordinary Shares in relation to this announcement will be carried out on the London Stock Exchange and Multilateral Trading Facilities, as defined by the Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments (including the delegated and implementing acts adopted under it) as implemented, retained, amended, extended, re-enacted or otherwise given effect in the United Kingdom from 1 January 2021 and as amended or supplemented in the United Kingdom thereafter, and executed in accordance with the Listing Rules an...