Imperial Tobacco Gp - Transaction in Own Shares 1 September

Source from:  AFX 09/02/2011

Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today, 1 September 2011, purchased 110,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 2054.140 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 54,517,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,013,425,881. Enditem