Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 5669O

Morgan Crucible Co PLC

09 March 2009

The Morgan Crucible Company plc - Grant of Deferred Bonus and Matching Awards

9th March 2009

The Morgan Crucible Company plc (the 'Company') announces that on 6th March 2009 the following awards over ordinary 25p shares in the Company ('Shares') were granted to Executive Directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMRs') under the Morgan Crucible Bonus Deferral Share Matching Plan (the 'Plan').

The Plan involves two linked awards:

Deferred Awards granted following the Executive Directors' and PDMRs' election to convert part of their bonus for the financial year 2008 into a deferred entitlement to Shares. The award relates to post-tax bonus. The Company's mid-market closing Share price on the date of grant was 80.75p; and

Matching Awards, the vesting of which is linked to continued service and an Earnings per Share-based measure of growth over a three year period. At the top end of the performance scale, the Matching Award would vest at three times the number of Shares which could be acquired with the pre-tax amount of the bonus which the participant had elected to invest in Shares.

Executive	Number of Shares under the Deferred Award	Max. number of Shares under the Matching Award
Bali Bandha	5,845	29,721
Kevin Dangerfield	13,973	71,052
Ralph Gomarsall	27,246	138,542
Tim Hayter	60,462	307,437
Simon Halliday	39,011	198,364
Andrew Hosty	71,042	361,233
Andrew Riley	10,959	55,727
Mark Robertshaw	48,222	245,201
Amanda Wooding	9,767	49,667