6 April 2011
National Grid plc (National Grid)
Notification of Changes in Directors' Interests
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Performance Share Plan - Lapse of Awards
The Trustee of the National Grid Group Employee Share Trust confirmed, yesterday, that the following awards made to Executive Directors under the National Grid Performance Share Plan 2002, in the 2007 operation of the Plan, have partially lapsed as follows:
June 2007 awards (adjusted for National Grid rights issue 2010)
Director |
Original Award |
Lapsed |
Remaining vested |
Mark Fairbairn |
77,132 |
26,881 |
50,251 |
Steve Holliday |
159,085 |
55,441 |
103,644 |
Steve Lucas |
97,051 |
33,822 |
63,229 |
Nick Winser |
85,712 |
29,871 |
55,841 |
November 2007 awards (adjusted for National Grid rights issue 2010)
Director |
Original Award |
Lapsed |
Remaining vested |
Mark Fairbairn |
42,798 |
14,916 |
27,882 |
Steve Holliday |
88,271 |
30,763 |
57,508 |
Tom King (ADSs) |
27,432 |
9,560 |
17,872 |
Steve Lucas |
53,850 |
18,767 |
35,083 |
Nick Winser |
47,559 |
16,574 |
30,985 |
These awards were subject to a performance condition. However the performance condition was only satisfied at 65.15%, as confirmed at the 1 July 2010 performance conditions test, with the net balance of shares now held in the one year retention period before being released to participants on 28 June 2011 (June 2007 awards) and 28 November 2011 (November 2007 awards).
The total share interests of the above directors, following these changes, are:
Mark Fairbairn |
975,677 |
Steve Holliday |
2,019,910 |
Tom King (ADSs) |
235,870 |
Steve Lucas (Retired 31 December 2010) |
1,161,589 |
Nick Winser |
1,102,103 |
Contact: D C Forward, Assistant Secretary
0207 004 3226