Begbies Regulatory News (BEG)

24 Jul 2009 12:37



The following amendment has been made to the 'Director/PDMR Shareholding' announcement released on 24 July 2009 at 11.45 under RNS No 2459W:

Correction of the date in first line from '23 July 2008' to '23 July 2009'

All other details remain unchanged.

The full amended text is shown below.

BEGBIES TRAYNOR GROUP PLC ("the Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Group announces that on 23 July 2009 the Board has made a grant of share options under the Group's Share Option Scheme to two existing executive directors, John Gittins and Geoffrey Hill. Both option agreements are over 200,000 ordinary 5 pence shares in the Group at the option price of 102.00p. The options are exercisable after three years subject to a performance hurdle requiring an overall increase in the adjusted Earnings per Share over a three year period of RPI plus 6%. The options, if exercised in full, will represent approximately 0.45% of the Group's issued share capital.

For further information, please contact: www.begbies-traynorgroup.com

Begbies Traynor Group plc 0161 837 1700

Ric Traynor, Executive Chairman

John Gittins, Chief Financial Officer

Shore Capital & Corporate Limited 020 7408 4090

Guy Peters/Edward Mansfield

Smithfield 020 7360 4900

Reg Hoare/Katie Hunt/Will Henderson