Financial Announcements
03 Nov 2009
Purchase of Shares by Employee Benefit Trust
The company has been informed that, on 2 November 2009, the trustees of the G4S Employee Benefit Trust (“the Trust”) purchased 554,700 ordinary shares of G4S plc at £2.5473 per share.Following the acquisition, 4,989,118 ordinary shares of G4S plc are held by the Trust.
The executive directors of the company and other persons within the company discharging managerial responsibilities are within the class of potential beneficiaries under the Trust and are deemed to have a non-beneficial interest in these ordinary shares. However, none of these persons has acquired a beneficial interest in such shares.
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Notes to Editors:
G4S is the world’s leading international security solutions group, which specialises in outsourced business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.
G4S is the largest employer quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. G4S has operations in over 110 countries and over 585,000 employees. For more information on G4S, visit www.g4s.com.
