Imperial Tobacco Gp - Transaction in Own Shares 8 March

Source from:  AFX 03/09/2012

Imperial Tobacco (LSE: IMT.L - news) has today, 8 March 2012, purchased 275,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 2542.02 pence per ordinary share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 68,577,000 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 999,365,881. Enditem