Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4419C

Britvic plc

01 September 2008

Britvic plc

1 September 2008

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY (PDMR) OR CONNECTED PERSONS

Britvic plc ('the Company') was notified on 1 September 2008, that the following transactions took place in relation to the Britvic Share Incentive Plan ('SIP') on 29 August 2008. The SIP is an all-employee trust arrangement approved by HM Revenue and Customs, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the Company of 20p each, using deductions from salary in each 4-week pay period, and receive allocations of matching free ordinary shares ('matching shares').

1. The SIP trust acquired 42,389 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 29 August 2008 at a total cost of £99,986.68 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as matching shares.

The following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities purchased the number of ordinary shares of 20p set out against their names below, at a price of £2.32per ordinary share, and were allocated for no consideration the number of matching shares set out against their names below:

Name	Role	Number of ordinary shares purchased	Number of matching shares
Paul Moody	Executive Director	50	32
John Gibney	Executive Director	50	32
Alan Beaney	PDMR	49	32
Doug Frost	PDMR	49	32
Andrew Richards	PDMR	49	32
Martin Rose	PDMR	49	32
Simon Stewart	PDMR	50	32