Director/PDMR Shareholding

4 May 2006 16:21

British American Tobacco PLC04 May 2006 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 4 May 2006 that it had on 3 May 2006 released: a) 41,292 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the"Shares") to participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share BonusScheme; and b) 10,047 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the"Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's share optionscheme. Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 21,543,235 Shares. The following executive directors, together with other employees, are potentialbeneficiaries under the trust, and are therefore deemed to be technicallyinterested for Companies Act purposes but were not connected with thetransactions that took place on the above mentioned date: Mr P N Adams, Mr P ARayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro. I A M B de Minvielle DevauxAssistant Secretary 0207 845 1545 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange