British American Tobacco Regulatory News (BATS)

7 Jun 2005 14:29

British American Tobacco PLC07 June 2005 DIRECTORS' INTERESTS The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 7 June 2005 that it had on 6 June 2005 released 16,386British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p Ordinary Shares ("the Shares") to satisfythe exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme. The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of BritishAmerican Tobacco p.l.c. Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,762,122 Shares. The followingexecutive directors, together with other employees, are potential beneficiariesand are therefore treated as having an interest: Mr P N Adams, Mr P A Rayner andMr A Monteiro de Castro. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange