Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3281G
Rio Tinto PLC
10 May 2011
 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

10 May 2011

 

 

 

 

Rio Tinto Share Option Plan ("SOP")

Rio Tinto Performance Share Plan ("PSP")

 

The SOP is a discretionary share option plan under which eligible employees are granted an option to purchase a number of Rio Tinto plc shares in the future at a price set at the date of grant provided certain performance conditions are met. 

 

The PSP is a performance share plan which provides participants with the conditional right, subject to performance conditions being met, to receive shares in the Company of 10p each ("ordinary shares").

 

This year persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs") of the Company have been given an opportunity to express their preference as to the mix of long term incentive awards allocated to them under the SOP and PSP.   Accordingly Rio Tinto plc announces that, on 6 May 2011, the PDMRs were awarded the following:

 

 

No of options granted under SOP at a price of £42.45 per share

 

No of shares awarded under PSP

Tom Albanese

85,415

56,943

Guy Elliott

59,708

39,805

Jacynthe Côté

47,523

31,682

Andrew Harding

34,829

23,219

Harry Kenyon-Slaney

-

33,936

Hugo Bague

34,415

22,943

Preston Chiaro

41,348

27,565

Bret Clayton

40,005

26,670

Debra Valentine

33,830

22,553

 

Subject to the satisfaction of certain performance conditions, the period during which the SOP options granted in 2011, as above, may be exercised is 6 May 2014 and 5 May 2021.  Awards under the PSP are subject to performance conditions for which the performance period ends on 31 December 2014.

 

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.4.

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

 

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Office: +44 (0) 20 7781 1910

 

Website: www.riotinto.com


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