Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3983K

Britvic plc

29 July 2013

Britvic plc

29 July 2013

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS

Britvic plc ("the Company") was notified on 29 July 2013 that the following transactions have taken place in relation to the Britvic Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") on 26 July 2013. 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 20 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), using deductions from salary in each 4-week pay period, and receive allocations of matching free Ordinary Shares ("Matching Shares").

1. The SIP trustees have allocated 12,266 ordinary shares of 20 pence each to employees participating in the SIP as Matching Shares. These shares were allotted to the SIP on 7 March 2013 at nominal value (£2,453.20).

2. The following Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") purchased the number of Ordinary Shares set out against their names below, at a price of 522 pence 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
Simon Litherland	Executive Director	22	9
John Gibney	Executive Director	22	9
Alan Beaney	PDMR	22	9
Doug Frost	PDMR	22	9
Martin Rose	PDMR	22	9
Simon Stewart	PDMR	22	9

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of the directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities and their connected persons in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:

Name	Number of Ordinary Shares	Name of Connected Person	Number of Ordinary Shares	Total of Ordinary Shares	Percentage of Issued Share Capital
Simon Litherland	166	-	-	166	0.00
John Gibney	255,221	-	-	255,221	0.10
Alan Beaney	11,316	Susan Beaney	210,982	222,298	0.09
Doug Frost	11,317	Laura Frost	180,179	191,496	0.08
Martin Rose	25,032	Yvonne Rose	152,248	177,280	0.07
Simon Stewart	43,293	-	-	43,293	0.02