Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4660O
Cookson Group PLC
06 March 2009
 

Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility and Connected Persons in accordance with DTR 3.1.4 (1) (a)

DIRECTORS' SHAREHOLDINGS FOLLOWING RIGHTS ISSUE

6 March 2009

Cookson Group plc announces that it has been advised that the Directors have taken up all their rights to new Ordinary Shares under the Company's recent Rights Issue which closed on 4 March 2009. Under the Rights Issue, qualifying shareholders were entitled to buy 12 New Shares at 10 pence for each 1 Existing Share held.

The Directors acquired the following Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Rights Issue, and now have the following total holdings of Ordinary Shares:

Directors

Number of shares acquired under the Rights Issue

Total holding following the Rights Issue

Total percentage holding following the Rights Issue

Executive Directors:




Mike Butterworth

1,092,588

1,183,637

0.043%

Nick Salmon

2,888,748

3,129,477

0.113%

Non-Executive Directors:




Bob Beeston 

(shares held in the name of FKI Supplementary Pension Scheme for R G Beeston)

2,100,000

2,275,000

0.082%

Jeff Hewitt 

(shares held in the name of Barclayshare Nominees Limited)

131,772

142,753

0.005%

Jan Oosterveld

97,704

105,846

0.004%

Barry Perry

31,200

33,800

0.001%

John Sussens

240,000

260,000

0.009%

TOTAL

6,582,012

7,130,513

0.258%

Interests in Ordinary Shares under the Company's employee share plans will be adjusted in accordance with the rules of each plan to reflect the effect of the Rights Issue and a further announcement will be made about the adjustments to the Executive Directors' interests in Ordinary Shares under the Long-Term Incentive Plan in due course.

Cookson Group plc
165 Fleet Street

London EC4A 2AE

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7822 0000

Fax: +44 (0) 20 7822 0100

Web: www.cooksongroup.co.uk


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