Imperial Tobacco Gp - Transaction in Own Shares 16 November

Source from:  AFX 11/17/2011

Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today, 16 November (Stuttgart: A0Z24E - news) 2011, purchased 350,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 2349.03 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 57,747,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 1,010,195,881. Enditem