InterContinental Hotels Regulatory News (IHG)

29 February 2016

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP PLC

Notification of transactions by directors, persons discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMRs") or connected persons

In respect of the conditional rights over ordinary shares awarded to a number of participants in the Company's Annual Bonus Plan in respect of the 2012 financial year, the Company was notified that the following numbers of deferred Ordinary Shares (net of income tax and social security liabilities) were, on 25 February 2016, transferred for no consideration from the Company's Employee Share Ownership Trust to the following directors and other PDMRs:

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For further information, please contact:

Corporate Legal & Secretariat (Nicolette Henfrey): +44 (0)1895 512 000

Notes to Editors

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