CRH PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • Oct 30, 2023

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author: Sinéad Crowley
date: 2023-10-30 15:29:00+00:00

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30 October 2023

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc (“CRH”) announces that on 27 October 2023, it acquired the following number of its ordinary shares (the “ordinary shares”) on the New York Stock Exchange from CRH’s broker BofA Securities, Inc. The ordinary shares acquired (by way of redemption) will be cancelled.

The redemptions form part of CRH’s intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to $1 billion* in the period to 20 December 2023 following its announcement on 25 September 2023 and were effected by CRH’s broker as part of the Programme announced on 25 September 2023.

Following settlement of the above transactions and subsequent share cancellation CRH will have 705,150,999 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). CRH will hold 41,216,169 of its ordinary shares in treasury, which represents 5.522% of the issued ordinary share capital of CRH. Ordinary shares held in treasury do not have any voting rights.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) as such legislation forms part of retained EU law in the United Kingdom (“UK”) (as defined in the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018) and as amended pursuant to UK’s Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (as may be amended and/or supplemented from time to time), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made on 27 October 2023 by BofA Securities, Inc. on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement. This announcement is also being made for the purposes of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Listing Rule 14.3.17(3).

• Being an amount equal to €940 million (based on a FX rate of $1.00:€0.94 fixed for the duration of the Buyback).

Contact:

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

Aggregate number of ordinary shares acquired	Volume weighted average price paid	Highest price paid per share	Lowest price per share	Trading Venue
340,000	$52.3504	$52.83	$51.6	See attached schedule

Issuer name:		CRH plc
LEI		549300MIDJNNTH068E74	549300MIDJNNTH068E74
ISIN:		IE0001827041	IE0001827041
US Broker:	US Broker:	BofA Securities, Inc.	BofA Securities, Inc.
US Broker code:	US Broker code:	283942	283942
Time zone:		EST
Currency:		USD	USD
Date of Transactions:		27 October 2023	27 October 2023
Aggregated Information	Aggregated Information	Aggregated Information	Aggregated Information	Aggregated Information
Trading venue	Trading venue	Currency	Volume Weighted Average Price	Aggregated volume
See attached schedule
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7559R_1-2023-10-30.pdf	See attached schedule
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7559R_1-2023-10-30.pdf	USD	52.3504	340,000