Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 9136L

NCC Group PLC

09 July 2014

9 July 2014

NCC Group plc

Director / PDMR Dealing

Exercise of Share Options

NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC or "the Company") announces that on 8 July 2014 it transferred to the trustees of the NCC Group Employee Benefit Trust 571,814 ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"). The shares were all formerly held as Treasury shares. Following this transfer NCC holds a total of 28,186 Ordinary Shares in Treasury and will have 208,442,136 Ordinary Shares with voting rights in issue (excluding Treasury shares).

On the same day the Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMRs") listed below were awarded the following shares by the Trustee of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("the Trustee") pursuant to options granted on 11 July 2011 and 22 September 2011. The options were exercised on 7 July 2014 and the exercise price was £1.00 per director/PDMR on the occasion of exercise.

Name	Director/PDMR	Number of shares awarded
Robert Cotton	Director	187,813
Atul Patel	Director	81,152
Roger Rawlinson	PDMR	92,745
Pete Stock	PDMR	75,622
Felicity Brandwood	PDMR	64,923

On the 8 July the Trustee sold the following shares on behalf of the Directors/ PDMRs listed below at a price of 193p per share to satisfy the costs of the income tax, national insurance and other liabilities arising on the exercise of these shares.

Name	Director/PDMR	Number of shares sold
Robert Cotton	Director	88,449
Atul Patel	Director	38,218
Roger Rawlinson	PDMR	43,678
Pete Stock	PDMR	35,614
Felicity Brandwood	PDMR	30,575

As a result of the exercise of their respective options, the directors and PDMRs are net acquirers of shares and their shareholdings have increased as shown in the table below.

Name	Director/PDMR	Former shareholding	Current Shareholding	Percentage of issued share capital
Robert Cotton*	Director	5,297,191	5,396,555	2.59%
Atul Patel	Director	30,000	72,934	0.03%
Roger Rawlinson**	PDMR	878,886	927,953	0.45%
Pete Stock	PDMR	15,972	55,980	0.03%
Felicity Brandwood***	PDMR	619,876	654,224	0.31%