8 January 2010
G4S PLC
Purchase of Shares by Employee Benefit Trust
The company has been informed that, on 7 January 2010, the trustees of the G4S
Employee Benefit Trust ("the Trust") purchased 554,700 ordinary shares of G4S
plc at £2.6547 per share.
Following the acquisition, 6,042,551 ordinary shares of G4S plc are held by the
Trust.
The executive directors of the company and other persons within the company
discharging managerial responsibilities are within the class of potential
beneficiaries under the Trust and are deemed to have a non-beneficial interest
in these ordinary shares. However, none of these persons has acquired a
beneficial interest in such shares.
Peter David
Company Secretary
[HUG#1371631]