Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Rank Group PLC

16 June 2011

 

The Rank Group Plc

-  The Rank Group Long-Term Incentive Plan 2005

The Rank Group Plc ("Rank") announces that, consequent upon Guoco Group Limited's offer for Rank ("the Offer") being declared unconditional on 8 June 2011, on 15 June 2011, a total of 610,224 ordinary shares of 13⁸/₉ pence each ("Shares") vested in favour of Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") under the terms of The Rank Group Long-Term Incentive Plan 2005 ("2005 LTIP").  The vesting, details of which are provided below, related to the performance awards granted to the relevant individuals under the 2005 LTIP on 2 September 2009.

Name	Role	Number of ordinary 138/9p shares originally awarded	Number of ordinary 138/9p shares that vested on 15 June 2011
Directors:
Ian Burke	Chief Executive	337,813	337,813
Paddy Gallagher	Finance Director	192,926	192,926
PDMR:
Frances Bingham	Company Secretary	79,485	79,485

In accordance with the rules of the 2005 LTIP, all of the above shares have been transferred to the relevant individuals by the trustee of Rank's Employment Benefit Trust.

Following this transfer, a total of 317,318 Shares were sold at an average price of 150.75 pence per Share on behalf of the PDMRs on 15 June 2011 in order to satisfy their income tax and national insurance liabilities consequent upon the vesting.  Details of these sales, and the resulting effect on the PDMRs' shareholdings, are set out below:

Name	Role	Previous shareh-olding	Shares received	Shares sold to discharge Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities	New shareh-olding
Directors:
Ian Burke	Chief Executive	587,406	337,813	175,663	749,556
Paddy Gallagher	Finance Director	346,666	192,926	100,322	439,270
PDMR:
Frances Bingham	Company Secretary	74,666	79,485	41,332	112,819

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16 June 2011

website: www.rank.com

Enquiries:

The Rank Group Plc

Frances Bingham, company secretary

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