17th Mar 2005 11:54
British American Tobacco PLC17 March 2005 DIRECTORS' INTERESTS The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 17 March 2005 that it had between 14 March 2005 and 16March 2005 released 29,495 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p Ordinary Shares("the Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's shareoption scheme. The participants to whom shares were released are not directors of BritishAmerican Tobacco p.l.c. Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 25,760,040 Shares. The followingexecutive directors, together with other employees, are potential beneficiariesand are therefore treated as having an interest: Mr P N Adams, Mr P A Rayner andMr A Monteiro de Castro. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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