Summary
CRH Public Limited Company (CRH) filed a Form 6-K on April 15, 2019, to report a transaction involving its own shares. The company announced that on April 12, 2019, it re-issued 9,244 ordinary shares from its treasury stock to participants in its employee share schemes. These shares were transferred at prices ranging from €16.19 to €17.30 per share. Following this re-issuance, CRH now holds 34,742,254 ordinary shares in treasury. The total number of ordinary shares outstanding, excluding these treasury shares, stands at 808,648,084. This filing primarily serves to update the market on the company's share capital structure due to the aforementioned employee share scheme activity.
Key Highlights
- 1CRH plc re-issued 9,244 ordinary shares from treasury on April 12, 2019.
- 2The shares were transferred to participants in employee share schemes.
- 3The transaction prices ranged from €16.19 to €17.30 per ordinary share.
- 4CRH plc now holds 34,742,254 ordinary shares in treasury following the transaction.
- 5The total number of outstanding ordinary shares (excluding treasury shares) is 808,648,084.
Frequently Asked Questions
The primary purpose of this filing was to report a transaction involving CRH's own shares, specifically the re-issuance of treasury shares to employees under share schemes.
CRH re-issued 9,244 ordinary shares from its treasury stock.
Following the transaction, CRH holds 34,742,254 ordinary shares in treasury.
The total number of ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, is 808,648,084.