CRH Regulatory News (CRH)

13th March 2019

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ("CRH") announces that on 12th March 2019 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the "ordinary shares") on the London Stock Exchange from CRH's broker UBS Europe SE. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares.

London Stock Exchange

Number of ordinary shares purchased:

18,660

Highest price paid per share:

GBp 2,383.0000

Lowest price paid per share:

GBp 2,377.0000

Volume weighted average price paid:

GBp 2,380.2324

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to €1 billion over a 12 month period following its announcement on 25th April 2018 and were effected by CRH's broker as part of the Phase 4 Programme announced on 28th December 2018.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 32,297,471 of its ordinary shares in treasury and will have 811,092,867 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made by UBS Europe SE on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

Contact

Neil Colgan

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:

GBp

Aggregated Information

Trading venue

Currency

Volume Weighted Average Price

Aggregated volume

London Stock Exchange

GBp

2,380.2324

18,660

London Stock Exchange

Number ofShares

Price per Share (GBp)

Trading Venue

Time of Transaction

MatchId

651

2,379

LSE

13:55:51

1462519

18

2,379

LSE

13:55:51

1462517

672

2,383

LSE

14:06:50

1475771

210

2,380

LSE

14:10:33

1480607

419

2,380

LSE

14:10:33

1480605

397

2,383

LSE

14:20:35

1493009

191

2,383

LSE

14:20:35

1493007

668

2,383

LSE

14:26:10

1501419

628

2,382

LSE

14:37:36

1517643

589

2,382

LSE

14:39:56

1521053

590

2,379

LSE

14:42:12

1525357

56

2,379

LSE

14:42:12

1525355

11

2,378

LSE

14:49:56

1537843

661

2,379

LSE

14:53:14

1542141

740

2,381

LSE

14:55:23

1544662

460

2,380

LSE

14:56:01

1545367

120

2,380

LSE

14:56:01

1545365

7

2,380

LSE

14:59:45

1550497

583

2,380

LSE

15:00:11

1551370

483

2,379

LSE

15:01:37

1554535

121

2,379

LSE

15:01:37

1554533

478

2,379

LSE

15:04:00

1557571

194

2,379

LSE

15:04:00

1557569

443

2,381

LSE

15:11:08

1566839

209

2,381

LSE

15:11:08

1566835

100

2,381

LSE

15:11:08

1566821

150

2,381

LSE

15:11:08

1566823

250

2,381

LSE

15:11:08

1566825

205

2,381

LSE

15:11:08

1566827

772

2,381

LSE

15:11:08

1566818

83

2,377

LSE

15:17:49

1575893

250

2,377

LSE

15:17:49

1575891

240

2,377

LSE

15:17:49

1575888

100

2,377

LSE

15:17:49

1575886

613

2,377

LSE

15:17:49

1575883

641

2,379

LSE

15:23:04

1581628

87

2,378

LSE

15:25:09

1584344

551

2,378

LSE

15:25:09

1584342

598

2,380

LSE

15:27:47

1587799

688

2,379

LSE

15:29:42

1589929

34

2,380

LSE

15:34:14

1594944

613

2,380

LSE

15:34:14

1594942

353

2,380

LSE

15:36:04

1597502

340

2,380

LSE

15:36:04

1597500

298

2,381

LSE

15:39:19

1602075

270

2,381

LSE

15:39:19

1602073

634

2,380

LSE

15:43:03

1606649

577

2,381

LSE

15:49:30

1615067

189

2,383

LSE

15:56:18

1623178

100

2,383

LSE

15:56:18

1623176

147

2,383

LSE

15:56:18

1623174

178

2,383

LSE

15:56:18

1623172