Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7377S

Smiths Group PLC

24 November 2011

24 NOVEMBER 2011

SMITHS GROUP PLC (issuer)

DTR 3.1.4R(1)

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTOR AND PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY (PDMRs) PURSUANT TO DTR 3.1.4R(1)(a)

On 23 November 2011 the Company received notifications in respect of the PDMRs listed in the table below that, on 23 November 2011, they had purchased the numbers of ordinary shares in Smiths Group plc ("shares") shown in Col. C of the table against their names in order to participate in the 2011 grant of conditional share awards under the Smiths Group Co-Investment Plan ("CIP"). The purchase price of the shares listed in Col. C of the table was 881.1146 pence per share. Pursuant to the Rules of the CIP, on 23 November 2011 the Company granted conditional share awards to these PDMRs over the numbers of shares shown in Col. D of the table against their names (such award numbers representing, in each case, shares with a total market value at close on 23 November 2011 equal to two times the amount (before deduction of income tax) invested by the individual in acquiring the shares shown against his name in Col. C of the table). The resulting interests of the PDMRs in shares are shown against their names in Col. E of the table.

Table

Col. A	Col. B	Col. C	Col. D	Col. E
Name	Status	Shares purchased	No. of shares over which a conditional share award was granted under the CIP on 23 Nov 2011	Total interests in shares following all notifications
Mr P.R. Cox	PDMR	12,211	49,553	167,974
Mr R.L. Phillips	PDMR	3,617	14,681	10,840
Mr S.Seshadri	PDMR	7,595	30,824	152,089
Mr W.T. Smith	PDMR	8,917	36,187	78,601