Imperial Tobacco Gp - Transaction in Own Shares 12 September

Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today, 12 September 2011, purchased 155,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 2038.22 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 55,447,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,012,495,881. Enditem