Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7845Z

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

28 September 2009

For immediate release 28th September 2009

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

('Bloomsbury' or 'the Company')

Notification of Interests of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMR') and connected persons

Bloomsbury announces the following changes to the interests of Directors and PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 1.25p each ('Shares').

On 25 September 2009 the Company made the following awards of Shares ('Awards') under the Bloomsbury Performance Share Plan 2005 ('PSP'):

Executive Directors

Name	Role	PSP Award (number)	Total PSP Awards (including current award)	Beneficial interest in shares (number excluding Awards)
Nigel Newton	Chief Executive	235,820	610,810	2,258,488
Colin Adams	Group Finance Director	117,189	282,778	50,000
Richard Charkin	Executive Director	169,189	465,037	12,000

The total number of Shares awarded to Executive Directors under the PSP is equal to 1.84 % of the issued share capital of the Company.

The Executive Directors have a total beneficial interest (excluding PSP Awards) in 3.15% of the issued share capital of the Company.

PDMRs

Name	PSP Award (number)			Total Awards (including current award)
Kathy Rooney	45,278			144,181
Jill Coleman	52,446			204,393
Jonathan Glasspool		39,220	74,907

Awards granted under the PSP will vest on 25th September 2012, but only to the extent that certain performance criteria based on earnings per share growth and total shareholder return are satisfied by the Company over a three year performance period. No consideration is payable for the grant of the Awards and the receipt of Shares is conditional upon meeting the performance criteria. It is intended that the Company's employee benefit trust will acquire shares (either by way of subscription for new shares, market purchase or from treasury) necessary to fulfil any obligation arising from the vesting of the Awards.