CRH Regulatory News (CRH)

9th June 2023

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ('CRH') announces that on 8th June 2023 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the 'ordinary shares') on the Euronext Dublin and/or London Stock Exchange (as applicable), from CRH's broker UBS. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares.

Euronext Dublin

London Stock Exchange

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 

6,140

1,042

Highest price paid per share:

€45.4000

GBp 3,878.0000

Lowest price paid per share:

€45.0200

GBp 3,873.0000

Volume weighted average price paid:

€45.2215

GBp 3,876.1823

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to $750 million* in the period to 29th June 2023 following its announcement on 31st March 2023 and were effected by CRH's broker as part of the Programme announced on 31st March 2023.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 21,203,768 of its ordinary shares in treasury which represents 2.819% of the issued ordinary share capital of CRH. Ordinary shares held in treasury do not have any voting rights. Following settlement, CRH will have 730,936,570 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the 'Market Abuse Regulation') (including as it forms part of retained EU law in the United Kingdom ('UK') from time to time and, where relevant, pursuant to the UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the UK's Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made on 8th June 2023 by UBS on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

*Being an amount equal to € 690 million (based on a FX Rate of $1:€0.92 fixed for the duration of the buyback programme).

Contact

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

Issuer name:

CRH plc

LEI

549300MIDJNNTH068E74

ISIN:

IE0001827041

Intermediary name:

UBS Europe SE

Intermediary code:

UBSWDE24

Time zone:

BST

Currency:

EUR & GBp (as indicated below)

Date of Transactions:

08/06/2023

Aggregated Information

Trading venue

Currency

Volume Weighted Average Price

Aggregated volume

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

EUR

45.2215

6,140

London Stock Exchange (XLON)

GBp

3,876.1823

1,042

London Stock Exchange

Number ofShares

Price per Share (GBp)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

64

3,878

LSE

08:04:16

1429484

300

3,878

LSE

08:04:16

1429482

170

3,877

LSE

08:04:43

1430035

204

3,877

LSE

08:04:43

1430033

304

3,873

LSE

08:07:04

1433401

Euronext Dublin

Number ofShares

Price per Share (EUR)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

116

45.10

ISE

08:04:12

1429391

259

45.10

ISE

08:04:16

1429486

89

45.07

ISE

08:04:41

1429989

314

45.07

ISE

08:04:42

1430011

454

45.02

ISE

08:07:04

1433403

406

45.21

ISE

08:11:20

1439150

306

45.19

ISE

08:11:43

1439725

150

45.19

ISE

08:11:43

1439723

412

45.27

ISE

08:17:43

1447545

376

45.24

ISE

08:19:53

1450039

381

45.23

ISE

08:20:52

1451542

408

45.23

ISE

08:25:11

1456418

362

45.24

ISE

08:25:58

1457283

25

45.24

ISE

08:25:58

1457281

25

45.24

ISE

08:25:58

1457279

447

45.22

ISE

08:26:32

1457912

417

45.22

ISE

08:27:09

1458578

6

45.36

ISE

08:34:32

1469191

221

45.36

ISE

08:34:42

1469477

172

45.36

ISE

08:34:42

1469475

164

45.35

ISE

08:37:49

1474828

17

45.35

ISE

08:37:49

1474826

214

45.35

ISE

08:38:31

1475853

399

45.40

ISE

08:42:48

1482886