Director Shareholding

19 Apr 2005 11:32

British American Tobacco PLC19 April 2005 DIRECTORS' INTERESTS The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 18 April 2005 that it had between 15 April 2005 and 18April 2005 released 12,000 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p Ordinary Shares("the Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's shareoption scheme. The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of BritishAmerican Tobacco p.l.c. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 22,808,735 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