Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 5253K

Marston's PLC

25 June 2014

Notification of interests of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities

25 June 2014

The Company announces that on 24 June 2014 the Directors and other Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities listed below exercised awards over ordinary shares in the Company under the Company's 2004 Long Term Incentive Plan with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Approved Schedule, which had been granted on 24 June 2011.

The Awards were structured as Approved Performance Share Plan Awards and comprised three elements: (i) an HMRC Approved Option over shares with an exercise price of 97.5 pence per share; (ii) a "Linked Award" which was, principally, a funding award in the form of a nil cost option (i.e. in the form of an LTIP Award); and (iii) an LTIP Award in the form of a nil cost option over shares to the value of the remainder of the APSP Award.

Other than in the case of one Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities, all shares acquired on the exercise of the Linked Awards were sold to the Company's employee benefit trust on 24 June 2014 at a price of £1.443 per share to fund the exercise price of the Approved Option.

Other shares were sold by the Directors to the extent necessary to fund tax and NICs arising on the exercise as noted below.

Director (D) /Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (PDMR)	Aggregate number of shares in respect of which Approved Option LTIP Award and Linked Award exercised	Number of shares acquired on the exercise of the Linked Award which were sold to the Company's employee benefit trust on 24 June 2014 at a price of £1.443 per share	Number of shares which were sold by the Director/PDMR on 24 June 2014, other than to the Company's employee benefit trust, at a price of £1.429 per share
Ralph Findlay (D)	219,988	9,189	97,345
Andrew Andrea (D)	138,387	9,189	58,858
Peter Dalzell (D)	31,727	9,189	8,551
Richard Westwood (PDMR)	25,857	0	0