Avon Protection Regulatory News (AVON)

31 January 2022

Avon Protection plc

Transaction in Own Shares

Avon Protection plc ("Avon Protection" or the "Group"), today announces that it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of £1.00 each on Exchange (as defined in the Rules of the London Stock Exchange) from Jefferies International Limited pursuant to its Share Buyback Programme, details of which were announced on 28 January 2022.

Avon Protection intends to retain the purchased shares in treasury.

Following settlement of the above purchase, Avon Protection will have 31,022,658 ordinary shares of £1.00 each in issue (excluding 634 ordinary shares of £1.00 each held in treasury). This number represents the total voting rights in Avon Protection and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Group under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as incorporated into UK domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018) (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases is available below: