Director/PDMR Shareholding

19 Jan 2010 13:44

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC

DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES

United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it received notification on 19 January 2010 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 18 January 2010, 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 493.0 pence per share.

Director/PDMR No. of Shares purchased Martin Bradbury 30 Alison Clarke 31 Charlie Cornish 31 Steve Fraser 30 Philip Green 30 Tom Keevil 30 Gaynor Kenyon 30 Tim Weller 32

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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".