Transaction in Own Shares

22 Apr 2005 16:23

Weir Group PLC22 April 2005 22 April 2005 The Weir Group PLC ----------------------------- Purchase of own shares ---------------------------- The Weir Group PLC ("Weir") announces that it has purchased the following numberof its ordinary shares of 12.5p each on the London Stock Exchange via UBSInvestment Bank. Date of purchase: 22.04.2005 Number of ordinary shares purchased: 200,000 Price paid per share: 327p Weir intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, Weir holds 890,000 of its ordinaryshares in treasury and has 206,499,494 ordinary shares in issue (excludingtreasury shares). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange