TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 24 October 2013 it transferred 9,352 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to participants in its employee share plans. The transfer price was nil pence. Following the transfer of these shares, the Company holds 2,522,837 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 148,085,575 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
25 October 2013
020 7655 3100