SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN
The Company was notified on 2 July 2008 by Computershare Investor Services plc, the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following purchases on 1 July 2008 in the Company's ordinary shares:-
that 38,305 shares were purchased and allocated at £13.82 per share using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares').
that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and allocated a further 26,978 shares at £13.82 per share ('Matching Shares'). The Company gives employees 1 Matching Share for each Partnership Share bought by them up to a maximum of 5 Matching Shares per employee, each month.
The purchase, referred to above, was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction with Computershare Investor Services plc for the monthly purchase of Partnership Shares.
The interests of Executive directors/PDMRs of the Company in the transactions were as follows:
Directors |
Number of Partnership Shares |
Number of Matching Shares |
Percentage of issued class |
Total holding following notification |
Total percentage of shares in issue following notification |
Colin Hood Director |
9 |
5 |
0.000002% |
28,010 |
0.003% |
Ian Marchant Director |
9 |
5 |
0.000002% |
119,221 |
0.014% |
Alistair Phillips-Davies Director |
9 |
5 |
0.000002% |
31,394 |
0.004% |
Gregor Alexander Director |
9 |
5 |
0.000002% |
32,672 |
0.004% |
Vincent Donnelly PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Paul Isgar PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Graham Juggins PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Anthony Keeling PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Ian Manson PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Mark Mathieson PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Robert McDonald PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
James McPhillimy PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Adrian Pike PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Brian Smith PDMR |
3 |
3 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
James Smith PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Paul Smith PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Alan Young PDMR |
9 |
5 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |