Director/PDMR Shareholding

13 Apr 2006 14:36

British American Tobacco PLC13 April 2006 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 13 April 2006 that it had between 10 April and 13 April2006 it had released: a) 24,638 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the"Shares") to participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share BonusScheme; and b) 46,991 Shares to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company'sshare option scheme. Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 21,874,366 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 between the above mentioned dates: Mr P N Adams,Mr P A Rayner 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