Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8011M

Rio Tinto PLC

20 September 2012

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

20 September 2012

 

 

 

 

 

Rio Tinto Share Ownership Plan ("SOP")

The SOP is an HMRC approved Share Incentive Plan under which qualifying UK employees are able to purchase ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company out of monthly deductions from salary and are allocated an equivalent number of matching shares. 

Rio Tinto plc offers participants in the SOP the opportunity to use their cash dividends to buy Rio Tinto plc shares in the market.  These shares are known as Dividend shares.

On 19 September 2012, Rio Tinto plc was notified that, the following person discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMR') acquired Dividend shares under the SOP.

	No of shares acquired	Price per share        GBP	Date acquired
Hugo Bague	5	32.049130	17 September 2012

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.2 to 3.1.5.

For further information, please contact:

Secretarial Department

Pat Sims

Share Plan Manager

Office: [phone]

Website: www.riotinto.com

 

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