TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 23 July 2015 it transferred 7,941 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 1,166,484 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 149,467,252 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
24 July 2015
020 7655 3100