Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7494Q

Pearson PLC

17 April 2009

 



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              ADRs           Purchase        Resultant      Percentage  

                                              Price              Holding          Holding

W T Ethridge     61,158         $9.9986          189,916          0.02345%

Name               Ordinary       Purchase        Resultant       Percentage  

                         Shares          Price               Holding          Holding

R A Freestone    20,913          £6.694308      65,292           0.00806%

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/ar2008/governance/rptDirRemun.html

 

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