TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 5 November 2013 it transferred 14,647 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 2,337,648 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 148,270,764 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Company Secretary
6 November 2013
020 7655 3100