Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7184Z

Britvic plc

10 February 2014

 



Britvic plc

10 February 2014

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

Britvic plc ("the Company") was notified on 10 February 2014 that the following transactions have taken place in relation to the Britvic Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") on 7 February 2014.  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 9,606 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 (£1,921.20).

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 713 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	16	7
John Gibney	Executive Director	16	7
Doug Frost	PDMR	16	7
Simon Stewart	PDMR	16	7
Paul Graham	PDMR	16	7

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of the above 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	32,122	-	-	32,122	0.01
John Gibney	244,458	-	-	244,458	0.10
Doug Frost	11,931	Laura Frost	170,179	182,110	0.08
Simon Stewart	43,907	-	-	43,907	0.02
Paul Graham	503	-	-	503	0.00

This notification is made pursuant to Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4(1).

Clare Thomas

Company Secretary

Britvic plc

 

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