Taylor Wimpey plc
Taylor Wimpey Employee Share Ownership Trusts
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 1p ordinary shares of the Company ("Shares");
The acquisition of Shares by employees and the one for one Matching of employees' purchases by the Company pursuant to the Company's Share Purchase Plan.
The current holding of the Company's employee share trusts is:
Taylor Wimpey Employee Benefit Trust 3,307,856 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 August 2010