Imperial Tobacco Gp - Transaction in Own Shares 9 August

Source from:  AFX 08/10/2011

Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today, 9 August 2011, purchased 100,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 1985.52 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 53,264,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,014,678,881. Enditem