Imperial Tobacco Gp - Transaction in Own Shares 19 September

Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today, 19 September 2011, purchased 75,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 2025.00 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 56,007,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,011,935,881. Enditem