Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 1820C

QinetiQ Group plc

28 August 2008

 



QinetiQ Group plc

28 August 2008

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

The information listed below relates to transactions notified in accordance with DR3.1.4R(1)a and, in respect of directors of QinetiQ Group plc only, DR3.1.4R(1)b.

QinetiQ Group plc (the 'Company') announces that it has been notified by Sir John Chisholm, the Company's Chairman, that on 27 August 2008, having obtained the necessary clearance under the Model Code, the following ordinary shares of 1 penny each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') were sold by Sir John Chisholm:

Name of Director                  No. of Ordinary Shares                        Percentage of issued share capital

                                             Transferred

Sir John Chisholm                   1,500,000                                              0.227%

This transaction was undertaken to meet a Capital Gains Tax liability, which was triggered by the transfer of 9,269,202 Ordinary Shares into a family trust (previously notified via a Regulatory Information Service on 28 March 2008). The disposal was undertaken at a price of 220.00p per Ordinary Share.

As a result of the above, the remaining interest of Sir John in the Company's Ordinary Shares is as follows:

Name of Director                  Total number of Ordinary                       Percentage of issued share capital

                                             Shares held following notification

Sir John Chisholm                   11,501,010                                               1.741%

The transaction described above took place on 27 August 2008 in the United Kingdom and relates to Ordinary Shares held by the director referred to above. No connected person of Sir John Chisholm participated in the disclosed transaction.  

Lynton D. Boardman 

Company Secretary

28 August July 2008

Tel:    (+44) (0)1252 392000

 

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