Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6091P

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC

20 August 2014

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 19 August 2014 (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 739.0p pence on 18 August 2014:

Name	Role	No. of ordinary shares purchased
John Hutson	Chief Executive Officer	20
Martin Geoghegan	Operations Director	21
David Capstick	IT & Property Director	21
Su Cacioppo	Personnel & Legal Director	17
Paul Hine	Director of Purchasing & Logistics	20
Miles Slade	Deputy Operations Director	17