Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6137C

Kingfisher PLC

17 April 2013

 



KINGFISHER PLC (the 'Company')

Notification of Transactions by Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility

On 17 April 2013, the Company was notified that Ian Cheshire, Group Chief Executive and Kevin O'Byrne, CEO B&Q and Koctas Brands, (together 'PDMRs') exercised awards under the Kingfisher Performance Share Plan ('PSP'), as detailed below. 

The PDMRs sold the shares detailed in the table below to meet their tax liabilities arising on exercise and to diversify personal finances.  These transactions occurred on 17 April 2013 at a price of 292.73 pence per ordinary share and were notified to Kingfisher on 17 April 2013.

The table below sets out the number of Kingfisher plc shares exercised by each PDMR, the number of shares subsequently sold and their total interest in Kingfisher plc shares following these transactions.  Kevin O'Byrne also has vested but unexercised options and awards over 1,094,983 Kingfisher shares.

Name of PDMR	No of shares exercised	No of shares sold	No of shares retained	Total shareholding following transactions
Ian Cheshire PSP (2008) PSP (2009)	1,299,886 328,726	611,558 154,657	688,328 174,069	2,153,003
Kevin O'Byrne PSP (2008)	665,000	665,000	0	141,431

This notification is made in accordance with the requirements of Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4.

David Morris

Assistant Company Secretary

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