Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4660O

Cookson Group PLC

06 March 2009

 

Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility and Connected Persons in accordance with DTR 3.1.4 (1) (a)

DIRECTORS' SHAREHOLDINGS FOLLOWING RIGHTS ISSUE

6 March 2009

Cookson Group plc announces that it has been advised that the Directors have taken up all their rights to new Ordinary Shares under the Company's recent Rights Issue which closed on 4 March 2009. Under the Rights Issue, qualifying shareholders were entitled to buy 12 New Shares at 10 pence for each 1 Existing Share held.

The Directors acquired the following Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Rights Issue, and now have the following total holdings of Ordinary Shares:

Directors	Number of shares acquired under the Rights Issue	Total holding following the Rights Issue	Total percentage holding following the Rights Issue
Executive Directors:
Mike Butterworth	1,092,588	1,183,637	0.043%
Nick Salmon	2,888,748	3,129,477	0.113%
Non-Executive Directors:
Bob Beeston  (shares held in the name of FKI Supplementary Pension Scheme for R G Beeston)	2,100,000	2,275,000	0.082%
Jeff Hewitt  (shares held in the name of Barclayshare Nominees Limited)	131,772	142,753	0.005%
Jan Oosterveld	97,704	105,846	0.004%
Barry Perry	31,200	33,800	0.001%
John Sussens	240,000	260,000	0.009%
TOTAL	6,582,012	7,130,513	0.258%

Interests in Ordinary Shares under the Company's employee share plans will be adjusted in accordance with the rules of each plan to reflect the effect of the Rights Issue and a further announcement will be made about the adjustments to the Executive Directors' interests in Ordinary Shares under the Long-Term Incentive Plan in due course.

Cookson Group plc
165 Fleet Street

London EC4A 2AE

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Web: www.cooksongroup.co.uk

 

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