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RNS Number : 3310P
Guinness Peat Group PLC
23 March 2009
 



GUINNESS PEAT GROUP PLC


Change of Directors' Interests




Guinness Peat Group ("GPG" or the "Company") announces the following changes in directors' interests following the exercise of share options by two of its directors and a disposal by Gary Weiss on the same day:



1.

Interests in the ordinary shares of GPG





Date

Acquired on

exercise of options

Shares sold

Current Total

at 20 March 2009








Gary Weiss

19 March 2009

1,348,737

(1,200,000)

15,411,443


Blake Nixon

20 March 2009

259,366

-

12,020,076









2.

Interests in options over the ordinary shares of GPG under the Company's share option schemes




As a result of these exercises of share options, these directors' interests in the Company's share options are now as follows:





Total Number of Options at

20 March 2009


Exercise Prices

Dates

Exercisable

Between




Blake Nixon

14,138,599

Between 20.57p - 67.47p

02/09/04 - 10/04/2018


Gary Weiss

14,610,191

Between 20.57p - 67.47p

02/09/04 - 10/04/2018





3.

Dr Weiss's interest in the shares of Capral Ltd (a subsidiary company of GPG listed on the Australian Securities Exchange) remain 93,255 Ordinary Shares and 241 Convertible Notes.










Richard Russell

Company Secretary

Guinness Peat Group plc

Tel: +44 20 7484 3370

23 March 2009



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