Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7928N

Stobart Group Limited

30 July 2014

 



30 July 2014

STOBART GROUP LIMITED

('Stobart' or 'the Company')

Director/PDMR Shareholdings

In light of their exceptional contribution to the restructuring and reorganisation of Stobart Group over the 2013/14 financial year, the three Executive Directors have received awards under the annual bonus plan from the Stobart Group Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT").  On 29 July 2014, the trustees of the EBT transferred ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the share capital of the Company ("Shares") for nil consideration as shown below.

Director	No. of Shares awarded	No. of Shares retained	No. of Shares held following transaction
Andrew Tinkler	230,769	122,308	31,301,750
Ben Whawell	230,769	122,308	305,884
Richard Butcher	230,769	122,308	240,173

The Directors shall be liable for any income tax and primary Class 1 National Insurance contributions that may arise on the transfer of Shares and a proportion of the Shares awarded have been sold to meet those liabilities.

There has been no change to the issued share capital of the Company as a result of the above transfer. The total number of voting rights in Stobart, excluding treasury shares, 328,265,831.

This disclosure is made pursuant to 3.1.4R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

Stobart	[phone]
Andrew Tinkler, Chief Executive Officer Ben Whawell, Chief Financial Officer
Lansons
Tony Langham ([e-mail])	[phone] / [phone]
Anna Schirmer ([e-mail])	[phone]
Influence Associates	[phone]
Stuart Dyble/James Andrew

 

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