14 May 2025

Future plc

Transaction in own shares

Future plc ("Future" or the "Company"), announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 5 December 2024 (the "Share Buyback Programme"), the Company purchased the following number of its Ordinary 15p Shares ("Ordinary Shares") through "Numis Securities Limited (trading as "Deutsche Numis")":

The purchased shares will be cancelled. Following the purchase of these shares, the remaining number of Ordinary Shares in issue will be 106,673,012 with no shares held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company will be 106,673,012.  This figure for the total number of voting rights may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) 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 Guidance and Transparency Rules.    

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), as it forms part of Retained EU Law as defined in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made by Deutsche Numis as part of the Share Buyback Programme.

Individual transactions:

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of Listing Rule 12.4.6.

Enquiries:

David Bateson

General Counsel and Company Secretary

Future plc

Tel: 01225 442244