TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 7 October 2014 it transferred 8,159 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 1,615,236 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 149,009,057 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
Nicholas Jennings
Company Secretary
7 October 2014
020 7655 3100