Director Shareholding

10 Mar 2005 14:07

British American Tobacco PLC10 March 2005 DIRECTORS' INTERESTS The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 10 March 2005 that it had on 9 March 2005 released25,768 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p Ordinary Shares ("the Shares") tosatisfy the exercise of options under the Company's share option 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 25,815,095 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