Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1190X

Britvic plc

07 January 2014

Britvic plc

7 January 2014

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

Britvic plc ("the Company") was notified on 6 January 2014, that the following transactions have taken place in relation to the Britvic Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") on 6 January 2014. The SIP is an all-employee trust arrangement approved by HM Revenue and Customs, under which employees are able to receive allocations of free ordinary shares in the Company of 20 pence each ("ordinary shares") ("free shares").

1. The SIP trust subscribed for 277,748 ordinary shares on 6 January 2014 at nominal value (£55,549.60). The shares were allocated by the SIP Trust to employees participating in the SIP as free shares.

2. The directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities named below were each allocated 433 free shares as participants in the SIP, for no consideration.

Name	Role
Simon Litherland	Executive Director
John Gibney	Executive Director
Doug Frost	PDMR
Simon Stewart	PDMR

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of the same 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	32,075	-	-	32,075	0.01
John Gibney	244,412	-	-	244,412	0.10
Doug Frost	11,884	Laura Frost	180,179	192,063	0.08
Simon Stewart	43,860	-	-	43,860	0.02