Close Brothers Group plc has announced that it transferred 1,209 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to participants in its employee share plans. The transfer price for these shares was 794 pence. Following this transfer, the company now holds 1,596,762 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 150,463,528 ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares. Helen Thorpe, the Head of Secretariat at Close Brothers Group plc, provided this information. The company's LEI code is 213800W73SYHR14I3X91.