21st Jan 2005 12:15
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC21 January 2005 Notification of Directors' Interests pursuant to Companies Act 1985 Section 324(2) and Section 329. Gareth Davis, Robert Dyrbus, David Cresswell, Bruce Davidson and Frank Rogerson(together, "the Directors"). Imperial Tobacco Group PLC was today advised that the Trustees of the Company'sEmployee and Executive Benefit Trust disposed of ordinary shares of 10p each inthe Company as detailed below and the Directors being potential beneficiariesunder the Trust are deemed to have disposed of a non-beneficial interest in suchshares. Date Disposed of Number Disposed of20 January 2005 132,357 The above disposal was the result of the Trust transferring ordinary shares of10p each in the Company to five participant Directors in the Company's Long TermIncentive Plan (LTIP) following the exercise of nil cost options granted on 26November 2004 upon the satisfaction of the performance conditions. These shares were previously shown as contingent rights for each Director. Name Number of options exercised and shares acquiredMr Gareth Davis 57,884Mr Robert Dyrbus 36,309Mr David Cresswell 11,225Mr Bruce Davidson 15,013Dr Frank Rogerson 11,926 As a result of the above, the Employee and Executive Benefit Trust now holds atotal of 696,075 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company. Copies of our announcements are available on our website:www.imperial-tobacco.com T M WilliamsDeputy Company Secretary This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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