Director/PDMR Shareholding

4 Aug 2005 10:24

British American Tobacco PLC04 August 2005 NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS BY DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIALRESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS Notification made in accordance with Disclosure Rule 3.1.4R(1)(a) of theDisclosure Rules sourcebook. The independent Trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 3 August 2005 that it had on 2 August 2005 released65,218 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p Ordinary Shares (the "Shares") to MrJ M Kruger, a person discharging managerial responsibilities and a participantin the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive Plan, at a price of 1141pper Share. Following this transaction, Mr Kruger has a total beneficial and family interestin 132,287 Shares (including 35,026 Deferred Shares). Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,051,904 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 thetransaction that took place on the above mentioned date: Mr P N Adams, Mr P ARayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro. Name of duly authorised officer of issuer responsible for making notification: A C GirlingDeputy Company Secretary 0207 845 1919 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange