Taylor Wimpey plc
Taylor Wimpey Employee Share Ownership Trusts
Share Transfers
Taylor Wimpey plc ('the Company') has been notified by the Trustees of the Company's various employee share trusts that following the transfer of shares to meet entitlements under:
The exercise of options over 25p ordinary shares of the Company ('Shares');
The vesting of conditional awards over Shares pursuant to the Company's Deferred Bonus Plan;
The one for one Matching of employees' purchases of Shares pursuant to the Company's Share Purchase Plan;
The current holdings of the Company's employee share trusts is:
Taylor Wimpey Employee Benefit Trust 860,534 Shares
Wilson Connolly Employee Benefit Trust 57,281 Shares (Wilson Connolly is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired in 2003)
These Shares will be used to meet the valid exercise or vesting of options or awards over Shares granted under the terms of the Company's various share plans.
Each of the executive directors of the Company is a potential beneficiary under both Trusts and therefore is regarded as having a notional interest in the current holdings of each Trust.
James Jordan
Group Company Secretary
Taylor Wimpey plc
2 December 2008