Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 5510C

Latham(James) PLC

02 September 2008

 



James Latham plc ('James Latham' or 'the Company')

Directors' dealings

James Latham plc announces that on 29 August 2008 the Trustees of the Company's SIPS Scheme allocated 5,704 ordinary 25p shares in the Company at 194 pence per share to the following Directors.  In addition, on 1 September 2008 the Company's Savings Related Share Option Scheme ('SAYE') matured and the following options over 20,704 ordinary 25p shares in the Company were exercised at 151 pence per share to the following Directors:

Director	SIPS Scheme allocation	SAYE options exercised
Peter Latham	307	6,274
David Dunmow	2,558	6,274
Chris Sutton	177	1,882
Nick Latham	2,558	6,274
Pippa Latham	104	5,019

The exercise of these options was satisfied by shares held by James Latham Trustee Limited.  Immediately following the exercise, Pippa Latham sold 5,019 ordinary shares to James Latham Trustee Limited at a price of 194 pence per share.  Following these dealings the revised total beneficial holdings of the above Directors are as follows:

Director	Revised shareholding	Percentage of the Company's issued shares
Peter Latham	1,062,967	5.52%
David Dunmow	59,950	0.31%
Chris Sutton	12,690	0.07%
Nick Latham	565,114	2.94%
Pippa Latham	629,229	3.27%

For Further Enquiries:

James Latham Plc
Peter Latham, Chairman	Tel: [phone]
David Dunmow, Finance Director	Tel: [phone]
Blue Oar Securities Plc
Jerry Keen, Corporate Broking	Tel: [phone]
Mike Coe, Corporate Finance	Tel: [phone]

 

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