Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Young & Co's Brewery PLC

Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C. (the “Company”)

Profit sharing scheme – further pre-retirement release of shares – and related notification

Circumstances giving rise to the notification

Further to the Company’s announcements made on 14 November and 1 December 2016 (relating to the release of all or the vast majority of the 499,348 A ordinary shares of 12.5p each in the Company’s capital allocated to 72 current and former employees under the Company’s profit sharing scheme), the Company reports that today, 26 January 2017, a further 69,888 of those shares are being released to 13 of the individuals concerned. This now leaves 57,176 shares, allocated to 22 current or former employees, still in the scheme.

Notification

In connection with the above, the Company today received the following notification:

From RBT II Trustees Ltd:

1	Â	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)		Name	Â	RBT II Trustees Ltd
2		Reason for the notification
a)		Position/status		This notification concerns a person closely associated with a person discharging managerial responsibilities. The person discharging managerial responsibilities is Torquil Charles fflorance Barrow Sligo-Young, the issuer’s Information Resources Director. The association arises by virtue of Mr. Sligo-Young being the chairman of the board of two directors of RBT II Trustees Limited.
b)		Initial notification / Amendment		Initial notification
3		Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)		Name		Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C.
b)		LEI		213800JMZDORXCMKFW06
4		Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)		Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument   Identification code		A ordinary shares of 12.5p each in the issuer’s capital       GB00B2NDK765
b)		Nature of the transaction		In connection with the issuer’s profit sharing scheme, the release of 69,888 A ordinary shares from the Ram Brewery Trust II for nil consideration.
c)		Price(s) and volume(s)		Price(s)   Volume(s)   Nil        69,888   Â
d)		Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price		  69,888 nil
e)		Date of the transaction		26 January 2017; 08:33 GMT
f)		Place of the transaction		Outside a trading venue

Anthony Schroeder

Company Secretary

Thursday, 26 January 2017

Tel: [phone]

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