Director Shareholding

10 Jun 2005 16:13

British American Tobacco PLC10 June 2005 DIRECTORS' INTERESTS The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 10 June 2005 that on 9 June 2005 it had released 16,800British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p Ordinary Shares ("the Shares") to satisfythe exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme. Theparticipant to whom shares were released is not a director of British AmericanTobacco p.l.c. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,709,060 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