TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 30 October 2013 it transferred 53,722 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 2,352,295 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 148,256,117 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Nicholas Jennings
Company Secretary
30 October 2013
020 7655 3100