Brambles updates market on share buy-back, director interests

Brambles Limited issued daily updates on its on-market share buy-back, reporting the purchase of 284,523 ordinary shares on September 30, 2025, for AUD 7,053,056.90. This brings the total bought back to 3,922,234 shares before the next day. On October 1, 2025, a further 219,031 shares were bought back for AUD 5,482,472.18, and on October 3, 2025, 176,509 shares for AUD 4,383,954.00. The company’s maximum proposed buy-back remains at 136,699,305 shares, with 132,189,322 shares remaining to be bought back as of October 3, 2025.

Graham Andrew Chipchase, a director, reported an indirect change in interest on September 30, 2025, involving the acquisition of 21 ordinary shares under the MyShare Plan and the grant of 21 Conditional Matched Share Rights, valued at AUD 24.85 per share. His post-change holdings include Conditional Performance Share Rights over 994,096 ordinary shares and Conditional Matched Share Rights over 467 ordinary shares.

Brambles also announced the cessation of 85,868 share rights due to lapsed conditions, comprising 50,999 under the Performance Share Plan and 34,869 under the MyShare Plan. Additionally, 65,228 Share Rights were issued to KMP and associates under an employee incentive scheme, effective October 30, 2025, with Graham Andrew Chipchase receiving 21 of these. Following these changes, the total ordinary fully paid shares on issue are 1,363,292,852 (after September 30 buy-back), 1,363,358,344 (after October 1 buy-back and before cessations and issues), and 1,363,577,375 (after all announced changes). Unquoted share rights total 8,875,987.