Transaction in Own Shares

13 Oct 2005 16:46

Weir Group PLC13 October 2005 13 October 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 DresdnerKleinwort Wasserstein. Date of purchase: 13.10.2005 Number of ordinary shares purchased: 200,000 Price paid: 352.25p Weir intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following the purchase of these shares, Weir holds 3,279,966 of its ordinaryshares in treasury and has 205,207,119 ordinary shares in issue (excludingtreasury shares). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange