1 Jul 2005 16:31
British American Tobacco PLC01 July 2005 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 30 June 2005 that it had on 29 June 2005 released 6,762British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to satisfythe exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,486,398 Shares. The following executive directors, together with other employees, are potentialbeneficiaries under the trust, and are therefore deemed to be technicallyinterested for Companies Act purposes but were not connected with thetransactions that took place on the above mentioned date: Mr P N Adams, Mr P ARayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange