Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8776L

Britvic plc

19 January 2009

Britvic plc

19 January 2009

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

Britvic plc ('the Company') was notified on 19 January 2009, that the following transactions took place in relation to the Britvic Share Incentive Plan ('SIP') on 16 January 2009. 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 40,160 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 16 January 2009 at a total cost of £98,498.15 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 £2.42 per 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	48	79
John Gibney	Executive Director	48	79
Alan Beaney	PDMR	48	79
Doug Frost	PDMR	48	79
Andrew Richards	PDMR	48	79
Martin Rose	PDMR	48	79
Simon Stewart	PDMR	47	78