Director/PDMR Shareholding

19th April 2006

                             ROLLS-ROYCE GROUP plc                             

 

 

Rolls-Royce announces that on 13 April 2006, ordinary shares in the company
were transferred to the following executive director and person discharging
managerial responsibility (PDMR) by Mourant & Co Trustee Ltd (the trustee of
the Rolls-Royce Employee Share Trust) in relation to deferred awards made under
the Company's Annual Performance Related Award plan (APRA) in 2004. In addition
the Director and PDMR sold the number of shares listed below to discharge their
tax obligations arising from the release of the shares.

 

 

                                APRA Award   Number of Shares    Total Shares
                               Exercisable  Sold to Discharge     Released to
                                                Tax Liability     Certificate
                                                                             
Director                                                                     
                                                                             
James M Guyette                     29,807             15,884          13,923
                                                                             
PDMR's                                                                       
                                                                             
Edward Thomas Curley                16,563              8,739           7,824

 

 

The shares have been held in trust for 2 years and have been released by the
trustee in accordance with the rules of the Plans.

 

Each of the Directors by virtue of being potential beneficiaries of the trust
are technically interested in all of the shares in the trust.

29,527,676 shares are held in the trust following the release of shares.

For further information, please contact:-

Peter Barnes-Wallis - Tel. [phone]