Director/PDMR Shareholding

15 Jun 2006 13:29

British American Tobacco PLC15 June 2006 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 14 June 2006 that on 12 June 2006 it had released 11,281British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to satisfythe exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 21,026,625 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 thetransaction that took place on the above mentioned date: Mr P N Adams, Mr P ARayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro. Miss IAMB de Minvielle DevauxAssistant Secretary 0207 845 1545 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange