Director/PDMR Shareholding

5 Jul 2005 09:58

British American Tobacco PLC05 July 2005 DIRECTORS' INTERESTS/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 4 July 2005 that on 1 July 2005 it had: a) released 7,060 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") in accordance with the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive Plan. b) disposed of 23,240 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme. c) released 7,479 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to a participant in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus Scheme. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 24,448,619 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. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange