Share Transactions and Purchase of Own Shares

RNS Number : 5615J

Halma PLC

08 August 2012

 



HALMA plc DIRECTORS' AND PDMRs' SHARE TRANSACTIONS AND PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES In accordance with 3.1.2R of the Disclosure Rules, notification is hereby given of transactions in the 10p ordinary shares of Halma by Directors and senior executives (persons discharging managerial responsibility), as follows: VESTING OF PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARDS Notification is given relating to Performance Share Plan ('PSP') awards originally granted on 7 August 2009 and which vested on 7 August 2012 at 100% of the original award in accordance with the Rules of the PSP and the relevant performance criteria.  Further to the vesting, shares were sold on 7 August 2012 primarily to finance the associated tax liability at 406.7552 pence per share (the volume weighted average share price for 6 August 2012).  Details are as set out below. After the transactions set out above, the beneficial holdings of Directors and PDMRs, including family interests, in the 10p ordinary shares of Halma have increased as set out below.

	No of shares vested 07.08.12	No of shares sold	No of shares retained	Increased beneficial holding	% of issued ordinary share capital excluding treasury shares
Andrew J Williams	226,610	146,610	80,000	500,806	0.1325
Kevin J Thompson	157,473	132,278	25,195	340,349	0.0901
Neil Quinn	125,620	115,620	10,000	271,041	0.0717
Adam J Meyers	80,909	35,155	45,754	248,818	0.0658
Nigel J B Trodd	67,081	26,833	40,248	183,830	0.0486
Mark Lavelle	62,831	32,673	30,158	121,717	0.0322
Allan Stamper	33,134	17,230	15,904	113,884	0.0301
Charles E Dubois	69,781	60,781	9,000	63,443	0.0168
Robert Randelman	13,161	4,344	8,817	22,871	0.0061
Martin Zhang	11,846	2,962	8,884	25,409	0.0067
Carol T Chesney	17,581	15,581	2,000	56,629	0.0150

PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES Halma plc purchased 816,006 of its ordinary shares on 7 August 2012 through Investec Bank plc at the volume weighted average price for 6 August 2012 of 406.7552 pence per share.  The purchased shares will not be subject to cancellation and will all be held as treasury shares in order to satisfy awards under the Halma plc Performance Share Plan 2005 ('PSP'). Following the above transactions, Halma plc holds 749,059 ordinary shares as treasury shares.  The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 377,880,317 shares. GRANT OF PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARDS Notification is given relating to PSP awards over Halma 10p ordinary shares granted on 8 August 2012 and vesting on 8 August 2015, subject to performance criteria.  Awards are granted for nil consideration.  Details are as set out below:

	Granted 08.08.12 Vesting 08.08.15 No of shares	Total outstanding PSP awards 08.08.12 No of shares
Andrew J Williams	141,658	506,785
Kevin J Thompson	98,066	325,763
Neil Quinn	70,954	249,295
Adam J Meyers	82,408	280,965
Nigel J B Trodd	37,919	138,715
Mark Lavelle	31,211	111,304
Allan Stamper	36,829	106,069
Charles E Dubois	43,472	157,485
Robert Randelman	42,017	103,132
Philippe Felten	44,668	91,257
Martin Zhang	19,723	66,706
Carol T Chesney	9,503	32,689

The awards granted lapse on their third anniversary to the extent that the performance criteria are not met.

Contact for further information:

Andrew Williams Chief Executive, Halma plc Tel:  [phone] Carol Chesney Company Secretary, Halma plc Tel:  [phone]

A copy of this announcement, together with other information about Halma, may be viewed on its website:  www.halma.com

 

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