Land Securities Group PLC: EBT Purchase of Shares

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Mar 18, 2015) - Land Securities Group PLC (LSE: LAND) (OTC PINK: LSGOF)

18 March 2015 LSE: LAND; OTC: LSGOF

Land Securities Group PLC ('the Company')

Land Securities Group Employee Benefit Trust

The Company was informed that ACS HR Solutions Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited as Trustee of the Land Securities Group Employee Benefit Trust (the 'Trust') purchased on 17 March 2015, 500,000 (five hundred thousand) ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company at an average price of 1229.37 pence per share.

The executive directors of the Company, namely Robert Noel and Martin Greenslade and PDMRs namely Colette O'Shea and Scott Parsons are amongst potential beneficiaries of the Trust.

Following the above transaction, the Trust holds 1,038,239 ordinary shares in the Company representing 0.13% of the Company's issued ordinary shares with voting rights.

Contact for further information:

Lucy Glover
Senior Assistant Company Secretary

0207 024 5246