AMEC plc
27 June 2012
Transaction in Own Shares
On 21 February 2012, AMEC plc ("the Company")
announced that it intended to complete a £400 million share
buyback programme within the next twelve months.
Today the Company announces that it has purchased 180,000
of its ordinary shares of 50p each at 951.9097 pence per
share through Bank of America Merrill Lynch, all of which
are to be cancelled. This purchase equates to
approximately 0.06 per cent of AMEC's current issued
share capital excluding Treasury shares prior to this
purchase.
Following this change AMEC's total issued share capital
is 325,626,023 ordinary shares, of which 6,385,532 are
registered as Treasury Shares, leaving a balance of
319,240,491 shares with voting rights.
Cumulative purchases to date under the buyback programme
amount to approximately £155.96 million.
Going forward, it is the Company's intention that the
significant majority of the shares purchased under this
programme will be cancelled.
AMEC
plc
+44 (0)20 7539 5800
Sue Scholes - Director of Communications
Nicola-Jane Brooks - Head of Investor Relations
AMEC(LSE: AMEC) is a focused supplier of
consultancy, engineering and project management services to
its customers in the world's oil and gas, minerals and
metals, clean energy, environment and infrastructure
markets. With annual revenues of some £3.3 billion, AMEC
designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex
assets and employs over 27,000 people in around 40
countries worldwide. See amec.com.