Directors' Shareholdings

RNS Number : 9428B

Persimmon PLC

09 April 2013

9 April 2013

Persimmon plc (the "Company") announces that on 8 April 2013 Mike Killoran, Group Finance Director and Jeff Fairburn, Group Managing Director exercised the following options over shares awarded to them under the Company's Bonus Share Scheme and Long Term Incentive Plan 2007 ("LTIP 2007").

Name Number of Shares Scheme Exercise Price

Mike Killoran 19,276 Bonus Share Scheme Nil

91,267 LTIP 2007 Nil

137,064 LTIP 2007 Nil

Jeff Fairburn 13,493 Bonus Share Scheme Nil

6,944 LTIP 2007 Nil

27,690 LTIP 2007 Nil

83,170 LTIP 2007 Nil

As a result of these transactions, Mike Killoran and his wife's interest in the Company's shares increased to 659,343 shares or 0.2% of the issued share capital of the Company. Jeff Fairburn and his wife's interest increased to 172,511 shares or 0.06% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Following the Bonus Share Scheme options exercises set out above, Persimmon (Share Scheme Trustees) Limited holds 98,968 shares in the Company representing 0.03% of the issued share capital. These shares are held for an employee benefit trust for the Company's Bonus Share Scheme. Each of the executive directors of the Company is a potential participant under the Bonus Share Scheme and is therefore regarded as having a notional interest in these shares.

The issued share capital of the Company on 9 April 2013 was 303,293,240 ordinary shares.

G N Francis

Group Company Secretary

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