Director Shareholding

13 Jan 2005 11:30

British American Tobacco PLC13 January 2005 DIRECTORS' INTERESTS The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 11 January 2005 that it had on 10 January 2005 released2,113 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p Ordinary Shares ("the Shares") tosatisfy the exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme. The participant to whom shares were released is not a director of BritishAmerican Tobacco p.l.c. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 26,470,930 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