Director/PDMR Shareholding

18 Aug 2011 13:42

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC

DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES

United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it received notification on 18 August 2011 that the Trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited, purchased ordinary shares of 5p each on behalf of the following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility on 17 August 2011, to be held in accordance with the rules of the Company's HMRC approved share incentive plan. The shares were purchased at a price of 590.0 pence per share.

Director/PDMR No. of Shares purchased Neil Colman 26 Steve Fraser 27 Simon Gardiner 25 Russ Houlden 27 Gaynor Kenyon 25 Steve Mogford 25 Paul Worthington 25

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Further information can be obtained from Jane Gilmore, Deputy Company Secretary 44 1 925 237052

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United Utilities Group's ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and its ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade over the counter under the Trading Symbol "UUGRY".