5th Jul 2006 16:08
Legal & General Group PLC05 July 2006 Legal & General Group Plc ("Group") Legal & General Group Employee Share Plan ("the Plan") In common with all eligible employees, each of the executive directors of Legal& General Group Plc ("Group") have been invited to apply for partnership sharesunder the Plan on a monthly basis. On 3 July 2006, each executive directorchose to contribute to purchase the following partnership shares: Partnership SharesC. R. R. Avery 96T. J. Breedon 96A. W. Palmer 96R. A. Phipps 96J. B. Pollock 96 The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.Accordingly, each executive director received 16 matching shares. The shareswere purchased at a price of 129.5p per share. Following these awards, the executive directors have beneficial interests in theshares of Legal & General Group Plc (comprising shares, shares held by trusteeswithin share schemes or plans and share options) as set out below:- Name Shares Shares in schemes Options Total beneficial or plans interestsC R R Avery 630,956 206,192 272,836 1,109,984 T J Breedon 1,010,858 364,557 78,660 1,454,075 A W Palmer 530,348 277,901 1,494,107 2,302,356 R A Phipps 1,183,307 296,122 404,755 1,884,184 J B Pollock 271,858 152,825 30,408 455,091 The following Senior Managers also chose to take part in the Employee SharePlan. Each Senior Manager chose to contribute to purchase the followingpartnership shares: Partnership SharesM. J. Bolton 96C. A. Davies 97I. A. Gibson 96C. C. Hatry 96G. J. Hoskin 96 The Group matched these shares, on a one-to-one basis, up to £20 per month.Accordingly, each Senior Manager, with the exception of C. A. Davies, received16 matching shares. C. A. Davies received 15 matching shares. The shares werepurchased at a price of 129.5p per share. Differences are due to rounding fromprevious allocations. Non Executive Directors' purchases On 3 July 2006 the following non-executive directors of Legal & General GroupPlc ("Group") purchased the following ordinary shares of 2.5p each ("shares") inGroup at a price of 129.5p per share. F. A. Heaton 1, 121B. C. Hodson 1, 121R. J. Margetts 5,655R. H. Schmitz 1,121H. E. Staunton 1,499J. M. Strachan 1,121D. A. Walker 1,499 Following these awards, the non-executive directors' current beneficialinterests in Group now stand at: F. A. Heaton 70,640B. C. Hodson 70,727R. J. Margetts 424,636R. H. Schmitz 78,001H. E. Staunton 89,249J. M. Strachan 56,587D. A. Walker 207,504 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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