Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6775V

Britvic plc

16 December 2013

Britvic plc

16 December 2013

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS

Britvic plc ("the Company") was notified on 16 December 2013 that the following transactions have taken place in relation to the Britvic Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") on 13 December 2013. The SIP is an all-employee trust arrangement approved by HM Revenue and Customs, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the Company of 20 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"), using deductions from salary in each 4-week pay period, and receive allocations of matching free Ordinary Shares ("Matching Shares").

1. The SIP trustees have allocated 9,610 ordinary shares of 20 pence each to employees participating in the SIP as Matching Shares. These shares were allotted to the SIP on 7 March 2013 at nominal value (£1,922).

2. The following Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR") purchased the number of Ordinary Shares set out against their names below, at a price of 671 pence per Ordinary Share, and were allocated for no consideration the number of Matching Shares set out against their names below:

Name	Role	Number of Ordinary Shares purchased	Number of Matching Shares
Simon Litherland	Executive Director	17	7
John Gibney	Executive Director	17	7
Doug Frost	PDMR	17	7
Simon Stewart	PDMR	17	7
Paul Graham	PDMR	17	7

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of the directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities and their connected persons in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding options, awards under the Company's LTIPs and interests as potential beneficiaries of the Company's Employee Benefit Trusts) are as follows:

Name	Number of Ordinary Shares	Name of Connected Person	Number of Ordinary Shares	Total of Ordinary Shares	Percentage of Issued Share Capital
Simon Litherland	31,642	-	-	31,642	0.01
John Gibney	243,979	-	-	243,979	0.10
Doug Frost	11,451	Laura Frost	180,179	191,630	0.08
Simon Stewart	43,427	-	-	43,427	0.02
Paul Graham	456	-	-	456	0.00