TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 6 October 2015 it transferred 633,892 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 676,298 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 149,958,539 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
7 October 2015
020 7655 3100