Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4036N

Britvic plc

16 February 2009

 



Britvic plc

16 February 2009

NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITY (PDMR) OR CONNECTED PERSONS 

Britvic plc ('the Company') was notified on 16 February 2009, that the following transactions took place in relation to the Britvic Share Incentive Plan ('SIP') on 13 February 2009. The SIP is an all-employee trust arrangement approved by HM Revenue and Customs, under which employees are able to buy ordinary shares in the Company of 20p each, using deductions from salary in each 4-week pay period, and receive allocations of matching free ordinary shares ('matching shares').

1. The SIP trust acquired 38,538 ordinary shares by purchase in the market on 13 February 2009 at a total cost of £96,310.69 and allocated them to employees participating in the SIP as matching shares. 

The following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibilities purchased the number of ordinary shares of 20p set out against their names below, at a price of £2.46 per ordinary share, and were allocated for no consideration the number of matching shares set out against their names below:

Name	Role	Number of ordinary shares purchased	Number of matching shares
Paul Moody	Executive Director	47	30
John Gibney	Executive Director	47	30
Alan Beaney	PDMR	47	30
Doug Frost	PDMR	46	30
Andrew Richards	PDMR	47	30
Martin Rose	PDMR	47	30
Simon Stewart	PDMR	47	30

2. Dividend Reinvestment Plan 

Pursuant to the Dividend Reinvestment Plan ('DRIP') offered to shareholders of the Company whose names appeared on the register of members as at 5 December 2008, the following person discharging managerial responsibility acquired shares on 13 February 2009 at a price of £2.50.

Name	Role	Number of ordinary shares purchased Under the('DRIP')	Total Holding following this notification
Doug Frost	PDMR	5133	158,459*

* Holding includes total shares acquired to date for PDMR's own account and those acquired on behalf of the PDMR by the Trustee of the Company's all-employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'). 

This notification is made pursuant to Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4.

John Price

Company Secretary

Britvic plc

 

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