Royal Dutch Shell plc: Issuance of New Shares
27.03.2017 | PR Newswire
LONDON, March 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Royal Dutch Shell plc (the "Company") (NYSE: RDS.A) (NYSE: RDS.B) announces that it has today issued 47,791,678 A ordinary shares of 0.07 each in relation to the scrip dividend programme for the fourth quarter 2016 interim dividend.
Following this issue, the total number of A shares in issue is 4,476,695,491 ordinary shares of 0.07 each and the total number of B shares is 3,745,486,731 ordinary shares of 0.07 each. A shares and B shares have identical voting rights. The Company holds no ordinary shares in Treasury.
The total number of A shares and B shares in issue is 8,222,182,222 ordinary shares of 0.07 each and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Royal Dutch Shell plc under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
This announcement will be available on http://www.shell.com/investor.
March 27, 2017
Mark Edwards
Deputy Company Secretary
LEI number of Royal Dutch Shell plc: 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70
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