Director/PDMR Shareholding

Future PLC
05 December 2007


5 December 2007 
                    
                                   FUTURE PLC 

                   Notification Of Directors' Interests In Shares 

Future plc (LSE :FUTR) announces that, on 5 December 2007, it granted Awards in 
accordance with the rules of its Performance Share Plan ('PSP') over 2,001,720 
Ordinary shares in the Company. 

Consequently, on 5 December 2007, the Company received notification that the 
following Directors acquired, on 5 December 2007, a beneficial interest in the 
following Ordinary shares in the Company: 

-    Stevie Spring (Chief Executive, Future plc) acquired a beneficial interest 
     in 931,298 Ordinary shares in the Company under the PSP; and 

-    John Bowman (Finance Director, Future plc) acquired a beneficial interest 
     in 751,145 Ordinary shares in the Company under the PSP. 

The PSP Awards will vest three years from the date of grant, at no cost to the 
participants, in accordance with the rules of the PSP provided that the 
participants remain in employment of the Group at the vesting date and subject 
to performance targets measured over the three financial years from 1 October 
2007 to 30 September 2010 having been met. Vesting of the Awards is subject to 
both Total Shareholder Return (TSR) and Earnings Per Share (EPS) performance. 

The vesting of 50% of the Award will be determined by the Company's TSR 
performance measured against a group of competitor companies, not being less 
than 15 in number. If the Company's performance places it below median, no part 
of the Award will vest. If the TSR performance places it above median ranking, 
25% will vest through to 100% if the Company is ranked in the upper quintile 
(top 20%). To alleviate short-term volatility, the return index will be averaged 
in the TSR calculations for each company over the three months prior to the 
start and end of the performance period. 

The vesting of the other 50% of the Award will be determined by the Company's 
EPS performance against the Retail Price Index (RPI). EPS growth targets have 
been determined by the Remuneration Committee for these Awards as follows: in 
the event that the Company's EPS growth is less than RPI + 3%, none of that part 
of the Award will vest, vesting commences at over RPI +3% and, at RET +8%, 100% 
of that part of the Award will vest, and vesting will be on a pro rata straight 
line basis between the two. Earnings per share is defined as before amortisation 
of intangible assets and exceptional items. 


                                        ENDS 

Enquiries: 

Future plc 
Mark Millar, Company Secretary and Head of Legal 
Tel: [phone] 
Vicky Bacon, Head of Group Communications 
Tel: [phone] 

About Future 

Future plc is an international special-interest media group with offices in the 
UK and USA Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today it creates over 180 special-
interest publications, websites and events, with strong portfolios in the 
technology, games, music, film, automotive and sport sectors. Future exports, 
syndicates or licenses its publications to 90 countries internationally. The 
Company employs more than 1,200 people worldwide. It is listed on the London 
Stock Exchange (symbol FUTR). 


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