| For Immediate Release | 17 November 2015 |
Wincanton plc
('Wincanton' or the 'Company)
Transaction in own shares
Wincanton plc, a leading provider of supply chain solutions in the UK and Ireland, announces that it purchased 500,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company on 17 November 2015 at a price of 200 pence per share. The shares have been gifted to the Wincanton plc Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") for the purpose of satisfying future exercise of awards under the Company's employee share incentive schemes, pursuant to the authorisation granted to the Company by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 16 July 2015 and a subsequent announcement made on 23 July 2015. The Executive Directors and PDMRs of the Company are included in the potential beneficiaries of the EBT and are deemed to have interest in some of those shares and the dealings thereof.
Following this transaction the EBT will hold 1,303,488 ordinary shares of 10 pence in the Company.
Notification is made in accordance with Listing Rule 12.4.6.
For further information please contact:
Wincanton plc
Adrian Colman, Chief Executive
Tim Lawlor, Group Finance Director 01249 710 000
Buchanan
Richard Oldworth, Gabriella Clinkard, Jane Glover 020 7466 5000
