Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 8607I
Centamin Egypt Limited
25 November 2008
 










Centamin Egypt Limited


('Centamin Egypt' or 'the Company')



DIRECTOR'S SHAREHOLDING 



Black Cat Holdings Pty Ltda company 50% owned by Mr Colin Cowden, a director of the Company, today exercised 500,000 unquoted employee options. As a result, 500,000 ordinary shares have today been issued and allotted at an exercise price of A$0.4355 per share

  

Application has been made for the new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company and trading of these shares on AIM is expected to commence on 1 December 2008.


The total number of Ordinary Shares on issue following this issue is 879,519,163.


Following this transaction, Mr Cowden's holdings in the share capital of the Company are as follows:-


  Registered holder


Number of Ordinary Shares / Options


  Black Cat Holdings Pty Ltd (1)

981,197 Fully Paid Ordinary Shares

  Mr C N Cowden

92,833 Fully Paid Ordinary Shares

  Cowden Limited (2)

29,596 Fully Paid Ordinary Shares

  Ballina Group Pty Ltd

  ATF The Ballina Superannuation Fund

100,000 Fully Paid Ordinary Shares

Notes: (1) Mr Cowden owns 50% of the shares,  (2) Mr Cowden owns 39.87% of the shares


The total Ordinary Shares in which Mr Colin Cowden has a beneficial interest is 1,203,626 representing 0.14 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.


For Centamin Egypt Limited



Heidi Brown

Company Secretary

25 November 2008


For more information please contact:


Centamin Egypt Limited

+ 61 (8) 9316 2640

Josef El-Raghy 

www.centamin.com

Pelham Public Relations

+ 44 (0) 207 743 6376

Candice Sgroi

Mobile: + 44 (0) 7894 462 114

Ambrian Partners Limited

+ 44 (0) 207 7634 4700

Richard Brown

Richard Greenfield



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