TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 23 September 2014 it transferred 603 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to participants in its employee share plans. The transfer price was 547 pence. Following the transfer of these shares, the Company holds 1,724,357 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 148,899,936 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
23 September 2014
020 7655 3100