Director/PDMR Shareholding

2 Aug 2005 13:56

GUS PLC02 August 2005 GUS plc ("THE COMPANY") INTERESTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE GUS PLC PERFORMANCE SHARE PLAN In June and July 2002 the Company made awards under its Performance Share Planwith such awards taking the form of a deferred right to acquire shares at nocost to the participant. The vesting of such awards is subject to performanceconditions and the conditions in respect of these awards have now beensatisfied. Details in respect of the vesting of awards to directors wereannounced on 7 June 2005. Details of transactions in respect of the vesting ofawards to persons discharging managerial responsibilities are set out below.These transactions took place on 1 August 2005. Name of person discharging Plan Plan Plan Numbermanagerial responsibilities shares shares shares of released sold after retained Ordinary release * shares now held Paul Loft 24,789 24,789 Nil 126,301(% of issued Ordinary shares ** Nil Nil Nil 0.01%) John Saunders 31,645 13,002 18,643 90,031(% of issued Ordinary shares, ** Nil Nil Nil 0.01%) Notification of these transactions was received by the Company on 2 August 2005and was made in accordance with DR 3.1.4R(l)(a). * The sale of shares took place on the London Stock Exchange at a price of909.5192p per share. In the case of John Saunders, the sale was made to satisfy the UK tax and national insurance liabilities falling due on the vesting of theaward and the incidental costs of the disposal. ** excluding Treasury shares Name and signature of duly authorised officer: Paul Cooper Date of notification: 2 August 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange