Scrip Dividend and Dividend R

RNS Number : 8212X

National Grid PLC

21 August 2009

 



The Scrip Dividend and Dividend Reinvestment announcement released on 20.08.09 at 17:50 under RNS No 7939X should have been issued under the Company name of National Grid PLC and not under the Company name of NGG Finance PLC 

 The announcement text is unchanged and is reproduced in full below.

National Grid plc ('NG')

20 August 2009

Notification of Directors' Interests

- Scrip Dividend and Dividend Reinvestment:

NG late yesterday received notification from the Trustee that, following the operation of cash dividend reinvestment (the shares were purchased in the market at 573.4p per share on 19 August 2009):

-  In the Lattice Group All Employee Share Ownership Plan, Steve Lucas became interested in an additional 40 ordinary shares;

- In the National Grid Share Incentive Plan, Mark Fairbairn became interested in an additional 66 ordinary shares. 

- Steve Holliday became interested in a total of 918 shares held under the National Grid Share Matching Scheme, allotted on 19 August 2009 under the terms of the National Grid plc Scrip Dividend Scheme (the 'Scheme') at the Scrip Dividend Reference Price of 555.5p per share.    

NG also received notification late yesterday from the Registrars that, under the Scheme, Sir John Parker and Mark Fairbairn became interested in an additional 194 and 1,238 shares respectively. The shares were allotted on 19 August 2009 under the terms of the Scheme at the Scrip Dividend Reference Price of 555.5p per share. 

The Directors total interests after these changes are:

Director	Total interest after event
Mark Fairbairn	673,333
Steve Holliday	1,394,473
Steve Lucas	887,745
Sir John Parker	81,531

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Contact: D C Forward, Assistant Secretary

0207 004 3226

 

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