Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0450W

Pearson PLC

05 June 2008

 



Pearson plc - Notification of Directors' Interests

Pearson announces that the following directors have purchased shares in the company under its Annual Bonus Share Matching Plan : 

Name                    Shares       Purchase             Resultant          Percentage  

                                                 Price                    Holding              Holding

R A Freestone        22,364        £6.707018           30,525                0.00378%

M M Scardino        58,986        £6.707018           458,647              0.05674%

The Plan is designed to encourage executives to build up their shareholding in Pearson by investing up to half of their after-tax annual bonus in ordinary shares.  Subject to Pearson meeting a corporate performance target, participants are then entitled to receive, after allowing for tax on their original investment, up to one additional matching share for each of their own shares held for three years.

Details of the Plan are included in the company's remuneration report at http://www.pearson.com/investor/ar2007/governance/renumeration.html

 

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