Imperial Tobacco Gp 4 July - Transaction in Own Shares

Source from:  AFX 07/05/2011

Purchase of own securities Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today, 4 July 2011, purchased 150,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 2143.5 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 50,864,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,017,078,881. Enditem