Imperial Tobacco - Transaction in Own Shares

Source from:  AFX 06/17/2011

Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today purchased 100,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 1974.91 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 50,264,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,017,678,881. Enditem