Share Transactions and Purchase of Own Shares

RNS Number : 1464L

Halma PLC

07 August 2013

HALMA plc

DIRECTORS' AND PDMRs' SHARE TRANSACTIONS

AND PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

In accordance with 3.1.2R of the Disclosure Rules, notification is hereby given of transactions in the 10p ordinary shares of Halma by Directors and senior executives (persons discharging managerial responsibility 'PDMRs'), as follows:

VESTING OF PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARDS

Notification is given relating to Performance Share Plan ('PSP') awards originally granted on 6 August 2010 and which vested on 6 August 2013 at 98.13% of the original award in accordance with the Rules of the PSP and the relevant performance criteria. Further to the vesting, shares were sold on 6 August 2013, primarily to finance the associated tax liabilities, at 561.78 pence per share (the volume weighted average share price for 5 August 2013). Details are as set out below.

After the transactions set out above, the beneficial holdings of Directors and PDMRs, including family interests, in the 10p ordinary shares of Halma have increased as set out below.

	No of shares vested 06.08.13	No of shares sold	No of shares retained	Increased beneficial holding	% of issued ordinary share capital excluding treasury shares
Andrew J Williams	196,470	176,470	20,000	521,501	0.1380
Kevin J Thompson	121,804	105,665	16,139	357,183	0.0945
Neil Quinn	95,707	66,707	29,000	300,736	0.0796
Adam J Meyers	107,947	77,947	30,000	297,313	0.0786
Nigel J B Trodd	54,956	11,291	43,665	227,495	0.0602
Mark Lavelle	40,366	18,973	21,393	143,805	0.0380
Allan Stamper	29,765	13,990	15,775	130,354	0.0345
Charles E Dubois	60,127	25,855	34,272	98,478	0.0261
Robert Randelman	13,526	4,931	8,595	31,466	0.0083
Philippe Felten	23,500	23,500	-	-	-
Martin Zhang	23,355	5,839	17,516	43,374	0.0115
Carol T Chesney	13,021	8,021	5,000	62,239	0.0165

PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES

Halma plc purchased 693,516 of its ordinary shares on 6 August 2013 through Investec Bank plc at the volume weighted average price for 5 August 2013 of 561.78 pence per share. The purchased shares will not be subject to cancellation and will all be held as treasury shares in order to satisfy future awards under the Halma plc Performance Share Plan 2005 ('PSP').

Following the above transactions, Halma plc holds 882,741 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 378,020,857 shares.

GRANT OF PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARDS

Following the vesting of the 2010 PSP awards, notification is given relating to PSP awards over Halma 10p ordinary shares granted on 6 August 2013 and vesting on 6 August 2016, subject to performance criteria. Awards are granted for nil consideration. Details are as set out below:

	Granted 06.08.13 Vesting 06.08.16 No of shares	Total outstanding PSP awards 06.08.13 No of shares
Andrew J Williams	114,646	421,216
Kevin J Thompson	71,041	272,678
Neil Quinn	57,054	208,818
Adam J Meyers	62,767	233,727
Nigel J B Trodd	35,575	118,286
Mark Lavelle	24,706	94,874
Allan Stamper	26,686	102,422
Charles E Dubois	38,592	134,804
Robert Randelman	28,796	118,144
Philippe Felten	31,006	98,315
Martin Zhang	24,210	67,115
Carol T Chesney	8,147	27,566