Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1034W

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC

22 January 2013

For immediate release

JD Wetherspoon plc ("the Company")

Notification of transactions of directors, persons discharging managerial responsibility (PDMR) or connected persons

JD Wetherspoon plc was notified on 21 January 2013 (that as part of the Company's partnership shares plan, whereby employees are able to purchase ordinary shares in the Company using deductions from monthly salary at the then prevailing market price), EES Corporate Trustees Limited acquired the following ordinary shares of the Company on behalf of directors and PDMRs at a price per ordinary share of 519.5 pence on 18 January 2013:

Name	Role	No. of ordinary shares purchased
John Hutson	Chief Executive Officer	24
Martin Geoghegan	Operations Director	24
David Capstick	IT & Property Director	24
Su Cacioppo	Personnel & Legal Director	25
Paul Hine	Director of Purchasing & Logistics	24
Miles Slade	Deputy Operations Director	24