Director/PDMR Shareholding

25 Oct 2005 16:05

British American Tobacco PLC25 October 2005 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 25 October 2005 that it had on 24 October 2005 released: a) 3,040 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the"Shares") to participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share BonusScheme; and b) 5,692 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the"Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's share optionscheme. Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 23,441,708 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 dates: Mr P N Adams, Mr P ARayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro. A C GirlingDeputy Secretary 0207 845 1919 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange