Barclays PLC has announced that it has purchased 9,314,922 of its ordinary shares of 25 pence each on the London Stock Exchange from Citigroup Global Markets Limited as part of its buy-back program. The highest price paid per share was 157.9000p, the lowest price paid per share was 153.0200p, and the volume weighted average price paid per share was 154.8669p. The company intends to cancel all of the purchased ordinary shares, resulting in an issued share capital of 15,258,172,560 ordinary shares with voting rights. There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury. Shareholders can use this figure as the denominator for calculating their interest in the company. Since the start of the share buy-back program, Barclays has purchased a total of 306,726,526 ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange at an average price of 150.4038p per share.