Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 6838M

Rio Tinto PLC

27 May 2010

 



Rio Tinto plc

Director/PDMR Shareholding

27 May 2010

SHAREHOLDINGS OF DIRECTORS AND PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY (PDMR)

On Thursday, 27 May 2010, Rio Tinto plc was notified that the following person discharging managerial responsibility had completed transactions under the Rio Tinto America Savings Plan to acquire ADRs in the Rio Tinto plc Stock Fund.  These were non-discretionary transactions.

	Date of purchase	No. of units acquired	Price per unit (USD)
Bret Clayton	17 May 2010	30.33	46.160
	17 May 2010	0.046	45.673

Note: On 12 April 2010 Rio Tinto announced a ratio change for the Rio Tinto plc American Depository Receipt (ADR) programme.

With effect from 30 April 2010, one ADR now represents one Ordinary share of 10p in Rio Tinto plc.  To effect this change, ADR holders received 3 additional ADRs for every 1 ADR held as of 22 April 2010, the ADR record date. 

Today, Rio Tinto plc was notified that the following non-executive directors had acquired Rio Tinto plc ordinary shares as follows:

	No. of shares acquired	Price per share (GBP)
Yves Fortier	99	31.97813
Richard Goodmanson	186	31.97813
Paul Tellier	159	31.97813

This announcement is made in accordance with the requirements of DTR 3.1.4 R.

Enquiries:    

Helen Day

Senior Company Secretarial Assistant

Rio Tinto plc

Tel:   [phone]

 

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