Compass Group PLC has announced that it purchased 100,000 of its ordinary shares on 15 December 2023. The shares were bought through the company's broker, BNP Paribas Financial Markets, and will be held in treasury. The shares are expected to be used to meet obligations arising from employee share schemes or other allocations of shares to employees or directors. The purchases were made on various venues, including CBOE BXE, CBOE CXE, London Stock Exchange, and Turquoise. The highest price paid per share was £21.1600, and the lowest price paid per share was £20.7400. The purchases are part of the company's market equivalent of $250 million share buyback announced on 4 December 2023. Following the purchases, the company holds 74,980,159 ordinary shares in treasury and has 1,710,423,818 ordinary shares in issue. The total number of voting rights in the company is 1,710,423,818 ordinary shares.