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DFS Furniture PLC
15 August 2022
 

15 August 2022

DFS Furniture plc

 

Transaction in Own Shares

 

DFS Furniture plc ("DFS" or the "Group"), today announces that it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £0.10 each on Exchange (as defined in the Rules of the London Stock Exchange) from Peel Hunt LLP pursuant to its Share Buyback Programme, details of which were announced on 15 March 2022.

 

Jefferies International Limited has concluded the first tranche of DFS's Share Buyback Programme. From 03 August 2022, the second tranche commenced and is being undertaken by Peel Hunt LLP.

 

Date of purchase:

12-Aug-22

Aggregate number of Ordinary GBP0.10 Shares purchased:

20,001

Lowest price paid per share (GBp):

133.00

Highest price paid per share (GBp):

137.60

Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp):

133.00

Broker

Peel Hunt LLP

 

DFS intends to retain the purchased shares in treasury.

Following the above transaction, the Company will have 258,636,720 ordinary shares of £0.10 each in issue. The total number of shares held by the Company in treasury is 9,826,156.

Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company is 248,810,564 and this figure may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) 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, the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018) (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases is available below:

Transaction Date & Time

Volume

Price (Gbp)

Platform

Transaction Reference Number

20220812 16:35:27.298000 +0100s

1

137.6

XLON

00137689390TRLO0

20220812 08:09:23.434846 +0100s

20000

133.00

XLON

00137640247TRLO0

 

Enquiries:

DFS: (enquiries via Tulchan)

TULCHAN

Liz McDonald (Group Company Secretary)

James Macey-White

Peter McDonald (Investor Relations)

                 Jessica Reid

investor.relations@dfs.co.uk

dfs@tulchangroup.com

About DFS Furniture plc

The Group is the clear market-leading retailer of living room furniture in the United Kingdom. Our Group purpose is to bring great design and comfort into every living room, in an affordable, responsible and sustainable manner.  We operate an integrated physical and digital retail network of living room furniture showrooms and web sites in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands and Spain, trading through our leading brands, DFS, Sofology and Dwell. We attract customers through our targeted and national marketing activities and our reputation for high quality products and service, breadth of product offer and favourable consumer financing options.  We fulfil orders for our exclusive product ranges through our own three UK finished goods factories, and through manufacturing partners located in the UK, Europe and Far East, and delivered with care through our expert final-mile delivery service "The Sofa Delivery Company". 

 

 

 

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