Transaction in Own Shares

1 Aug 2006 17:05

Wolverhampton& Dudley Breweries PLC01 August 2006 The Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, PLC Purchase of own shares The Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, PLC (the "Company") announces that it has purchased the following number of its ordinary shares of 29.5p each on the London Stock Exchange via UBS Investment Bank. Date of purchase: 01/08/06Number of ordinary shares purchased: 100,000Highest price paid per share: 1300pLowest price paid per share: 1293pVolume weighted average price per share: 1297.8532p The Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, PLC intend to hold these shares as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, The Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, PLC holds 625,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares and has 77,013,743 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange