Victrex Regulatory News (VCT)

18 Dec 2008 12:21

Victrex plc (the "Company")

1. The following purchases of the Company's ordinary 1p shares took place on 17 December 2008 and were notified to the Company by the relevant Directors on that date:

Director	Shares purchased	Purchase price
AM Frew	5,000	£4.44
PJM De Smedt	2,000	£4.44
LC Pentz	2,000	£4.44

2. The following exercise of options in the Company's ordinary 1p shares took place on 17 December 2008 and were notified to the Company by the relevant Directors on that date:

Exercise of share options awarded under the 1999 Victrex Long Term Incentive Plan: 

Director	Share options Exercised	Date granted	Exercise price
DR Hummel	100	29 January 1999	Nil
	10,044	19 February 2002	Nil
	81,490	10 December 2002	Nil
	62,140	17 December 2003	Nil
MW Peacock	5,778	20 December 2001	Nil
	50,970	10 December 2002	Nil
	44,151	17 December 2003	Nil
BV Souder	41,289	17 December 2003	Nil
TJ Walker	41,743	17 December 2003	Nil

3. The following sales of shares in the Company's ordinary 1p shares took place on 17 December 2008, and were notified to the Company by the relevant Directors on that date:

Director	Shares sold	Price at which sold
DR Hummel	83,914	£4.44
MW Peacock	41,452	£4.44
BV Souder	16,421	£4.44
TJ Walker	17,150	£4.44

The sales of shares were made in order to fund the Directors' tax liabilities arising

on the exercise of the options together with the dealing costs.

 

4. The position of the relevant Directors following the above transactions is as  follows:

Director	Number of shares in which interested in, beneficially and non-beneficially	Number of share options under the Victrex 1999 Long Term Incentive Plan	Percentage of voting rights
DR Hummel	3,908,940	155,459	4.71%
MW Peacock	97,593	118,782	0.11%
BV Souder	73,571	105,022	0.08%
TJ Walker	102,853	109,821	0.12%
AM Frew	14,184	-	NA
PJM De Smedt	2,000	-	NA
LC Pentz	2,000	-	NA

5. Name of contact and telephone number for queries

Sonya Moore

01253 8977708

Name and signature of duly authorised officer of issuer responsible for making notification

Sonya Moore

Date of notification

18 December 2008

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