Director/PDMR Shareholding

21 Jul 2005 09:48

British American Tobacco PLC21 July 2005 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 20 July 2005 that it had between 19 July 2005 and 20July 2005 released 24,385 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares(the "Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's shareoption scheme. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,207,930 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. A C Girling Deputy Secretary 0207 845 1919 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange