Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0536P

Smiths Group PLC

26 September 2013

26 SEPTEMBER 2013

SMITHS GROUP PLC (issuer)

DTR 3.1.4R(1)

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS AND PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY (PDMRs) PURSUANT TO DTR 3.1.4R(1)(a)

2013 AWARDS UNDER THE SMITHS GROUP CO-INVESTMENT PLAN ("CIP")

On 26 September 2013 the Company received notifications in respect of the Directors and PDMRs, listed in Table 1 below, that, on 25 September 2013, they had purchased the numbers of Smiths Group plc ordinary shares of 37.5p ("shares") shown in Col. C of Table 1 against their names, in order to participate in the 2013 grant of conditional share awards under CIP. The purchase price of the shares listed in Col. C of Table 2 was 1386.35p per share. Pursuant to the Rules of CIP, on 26 September 2013 the Company granted performance-related conditional share awards to these Directors and PDMRs over the numbers of shares shown in Col. D of Table 1 against their names (such award numbers representing, in each case, shares with a total market value at close on 25 September 2013 equivalent to two times the amount (before deduction of income tax) invested by the individual in acquiring the shares shown against his name in Col. C of Table 1). The resulting interests of the Directors and PDMRs in shares are shown against their names in Col. E of Table.

Table 1

Col. A	Col. B	Col. C	Col. D	Col. E
Name	Status	Shares purchased	No. of shares over which a conditional share award was granted under CIP on 26 Sep 2013	Total interests in shares following all notifications
Mr P. Bowman	Director	10,440	41,913	518,675
Mr P.A. Turner	Director	4,308	17,296	56,879
Mr D. Gillis	PDMR	6,723	26,993	6,723
Mr M.H.C. Herlihy	PDMR	3,044	12,221	41,613
Mr J.B.F. Jones	PDMR	3,427	13,761	32,283
Mr M.P. Maginnis	PDMR	1,941	7,796	25,963
Mr T. Nolan	PDMR	2,579	10,354	31,743
Mr W.T. Smith	PDMR	5,638	22,637	135,308