Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8581S

Informa PLC

27 May 2009

 



THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS RESTRICTED AND IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, CANADA, OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION. PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE AT THE END OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

27 May 2009

Informa plc - Directors Dealings and Shareholdings

In accordance with the Directors' intentions stated in the Circular to shareholders and the Prospectus dated 1 May 2009, each Director, to the extent they were able, took up their rights to subscribe in full for New Ordinary Shares under the Rights Issue or sold sufficient of their Nil Paid Rights during the nil paid period to meet the costs of taking up the balance of their entitlements to New Ordinary Shares. In the case of Peter Rigby and Adam Walker, the total holdings include rights taken up as part of the Informa plc Share Incentive Plan of which these are 526 and 80 shares respectively.

Following the Rights Issue, the interests of the Directors are as follows:

Name  (all Directors unless otherwise indicated)	New Shares subscribed for in Rights Issue at 150 pence	Nil Paid Rights sold during Rights Issue	Resulting total holding (number of shares)	Resulting total holding (%)
Derek Mapp	24,197	-	84,693	0.014
Peter Rigby	128,216	182,840	907,703	0.153
Adam Walker	33,333	13,154	149,552	0.025
Dr Pamela Kirby	4,000	-	14,000	0.002
John Davis	4,000	-	14,000	0.002
Dr Brendan O'Neill	1,200	-	4,200	0.001

In accordance with Disclosure Rule 3.1.2R, the Company has received notification in relation to each of the above Directors (and their respective connected persons) that on completion of the Rights Issue each is interested in ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company as stated in the table above.

For further information please contact: 

John Burton

Company Secretary

Julie Wilson

Deputy Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

IMPORTANT NOTICE

The release, publication or distribution of this announcement in jurisdictions other than the United Kingdom may be restricted by law and therefore any persons who are subject to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United Kingdom should inform themselves about, and observe, any applicable requirements. This announcement has been prepared for the purposes of complying with English law and the information disclosed may not be the same as that which would have been disclosed if this announcement had been prepared in accordance with the laws and regulations of any jurisdictions outside of England.

The securities to be issued in the Rights Issue have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 'Securities Act'), or under the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with state securities laws. There will be no public offer of the securities to be issued in the Rights Issue in the United States.

This announcement does not constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase, otherwise acquire, subscribe for, sell, otherwise dispose of or issue, or any solicitation of any offer to sell, otherwise dispose of, issue, purchase, otherwise acquire or subscribe for, any security in the capital of the Company in any jurisdiction.

This announcement is an advertisement and does not constitute a prospectus. Nothing in this announcement should be interpreted as a term or condition of the Rights Issue. Any decision to purchase, otherwise acquire, subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of any Nil Paid Rights, Fully Paid Rights and/or New Ordinary Shares must be made only on the basis of the information contained in and incorporated by reference into the Prospectus. Copies of the Prospectus are available from the Company's website at www.informa.com, provided that the Prospectus is not available (whether through the website or otherwise) to Shareholders in Excluded Territories or, subject to certain exceptions, in the United States.

 

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