TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 21 November 2014 it transferred 12,018 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 1,567,760 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 149,056,533 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
24 November 2014
020 7655 3100