Total Voting Rights
Total Voting Rights
Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG) (the “Company”), in accordance with the Financial Conduct Authority's (the “FCA”) Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1R, notifies the market of the following:
At close of business on February 28, 2014, the Company’s issued ordinary share capital comprised 587,949,918 ordinary shares of 5 pence each with voting rights and a further 9,823,536 ordinary shares held in treasury.
Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 587,949,918. This is the figure which should be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Tony Guthrie
Deputy Company Secretary
For further information please contact:
Investor Relations
Laurie Stelzer
[email protected]
+1 781 482 0733
Eric Rojas
[email protected]
+1 781 482 0999
Sarah Elton-Farr
[email protected]
+44 1256 894157
Notes to editors
Shire enables people with life-altering conditions to lead better lives.
Our strategy is to focus on developing and marketing innovative specialty medicines to meet significant unmet patient needs.
We provide treatments in Neuroscience, Rare Diseases, Gastrointestinal and Internal Medicine and we are developing treatments for symptomatic conditions treated by specialist physicians in other targeted therapeutic areas.
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