Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 2698Z

Sage Group PLC

11 January 2011

The Sage Group plc (the Company)

Notification of Transactions of Directors

This notification relates to transactions notified in accordance with DR 3.1.4R(1)(a).

On the vesting of awards under the Sage Group Deferred Bonus Plan (the DBP) on 10 January 2011, the following directors of the Company became beneficially entitled to the number of ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company set out below, all of which were held in trust by Ogier Employee Benefit Trustee Limited as trustee of the Sage Group plc Employee Benefit Trust (the Trustee). The Trustee will transfer the legal title to the ordinary shares to the directors (or as they may direct) in accordance with the rules of the DBP for no consideration, subject to the sale of any ordinary shares on the director's behalf in order to discharge the director's tax liability in respect of the vesting of the award.