Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3346V

Halma PLC

08 July 2009

 



HALMA p.l.c. DIRECTORS' AND PDMRs' SHARE TRANSACTIONS In accordance with 3.1.2R of the Disclosure Rules, notification is hereby given that the following Directors and senior executives (persons discharging managerial responsibility) have exercised share options and have received vested performance share awards, all on 7 July 2009. After the transactions set out below, the beneficial holdings of Directors and PDMRs, including family interests, in the 10p ordinary shares of Halma have increased as follows:

	Increase by	Beneficial holding	% of issued ordinary  share capital excluding treasury shares
Andrew J Williams	99,851	272,744	0.0727
Kevin J Thompson	8,401	168,683	0.0450
Neil Quinn	71,305	163,689	0.0436
Adam J Meyers	56,342	124,943	0.0333
John S Campbell	57,796	145,353	0.0387
Nigel J B Trodd	38,129	65,366	0.0174
Mark S Lavelle	11,622	23,922	0.0064
Allan Stamper	16,541	25,818	0.0069
Charles E Dubois	9,994	14,729	0.0039
Carol T Chesney	9,759	22,628	0.0060

EXERCISE OF SHARE OPTIONS At a meeting of the Share Plans Committee of the Board of Halma held on 07 July 2009, additional ordinary shares in the Company were allotted under the provisions of the Company's 1996 Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme to Directors and PDMRs of the Company, following the exercise of share options, at an exercise price of 120p per share, as set out below.   These options were awarded in August 1999 and would lapse if not exercised by their tenth anniversary. In addition, primarily to finance the exercise of the share options and the associated tax liabilities, Directors and PDMRs sold shares as set out below on 7 July 2009 at 194.7183p per share.

	No of shares  awarded	No of shares sold
Andrew J Williams	14,400	11,113
Kevin J Thompson	36,800	28,399
Neil Quinn	40,500	40,500
Adam J Meyers	23,300	14,396
John S Campbell	29,400	20,991
Charles E Dubois	14,900	14,900
Carol T Chesney	16,900	16,900

VESTING OF PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARDS  Notification is given relating to Performance Share Plan ('PSP') awards originally granted on 07 July 2006 and which vested on 7 July 2009 at 91.25% of the original award in accordance with the Rules of the PSP and the relevant performance criteria. Further to the vesting, shares were sold on 7 July 2009 primarily to finance the associated tax liability at 196.4592p per share. Details are as follows:

	Vested 07.07.09 No of shares	No of shares sold
Andrew J Williams	224,685	128,121
Kevin J Thompson	150,860	150,860
Neil Quinn	120,856	49,551
Adam J Meyers	74,647	27,209
John S Campbell	77,714	28,327
Nigel J B Trodd	64,627	26,498
Mark S Lavelle	19,699	8,077
Allan Stamper	16,541	0
Charles E Dubois	14,167	4,173
Carol T Chesney	16,541	6,782

Following the issue of ordinary shares as a result of transactions exercised on 7 July 2009, the issued ordinary share capital of the Company, excluding treasury shares, is increased to 375,185,420 shares.

Contact for further information:

Carol T Chesney Company Secretary, Halma p.l.c. Tel: [phone]

A copy of this announcement, together with other information about Halma, may be viewed on its web site: www.halma.com

 

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