Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0818X

888 Holdings plc

19 June 2008

 



19 June 2008

888 Holdings Public Limited Company 

('888')

DIRECTORS/ PDMR SHARE INTERESTS

Following notifications made in accordance with DR 3.1.4(R)(1)(a), 888 Holdings plc (the 'Company') wishes to notify the following changes in the interests of persons discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMRs') in ordinary shares £0.005 each in the capital of the Company ('Shares') arising out of the operation of its 888 All-Employee Share Plan.

The following PDMR was granted share awards in the form of a contingent right to receive shares under the 888 All-Employee Plan on 14 September 2006. Following the satisfaction of the vesting conditions to which those share awards were subject, the share awards in the form of a contingent right to receive shares vested on June 17th 2008 and June 18th 2008 are as follows:

PDMR	Date of Vesting	Number and Percentage of Share acquired	Total interest in Shares following vesting and issuance of Shares	Price per Share on vesting date
Gigi Levy	June 17th 2008	Number of Shares acquired: 337,096 Shares percentage of the issued class acquired: 0.1%	1,104,612 beneficially owned Total percentage holding following vesting: 0.3%	140.5 p
Gigi Levy	June 18th 2008	Number of Shares acquired: 138,845 Shares percentage of the issued class acquired: 0.04%	1,243,457 beneficially owned Total percentage holding following vesting: 0.3%	137.75 p

The PDMR listed in the table above paid no consideration for these Shares. This notification relates to the PDMR named in the table above and not to any other person connected with this PDMR.

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Contacts and enquiries 

888

Aviad Kobrine                                                   Chief Financial Officer    [phone]

Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial 

Nick Lambert/ Andrew Benbow                                                              [phone]

 

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