10th Apr 2006 16:46
Barclays PLC10 April 2006 10 April 2006 Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure Rules 3.1.4R(1)(a) and 3.1.4R(1)(b) The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan, an Inland Revenue approvedall-employee share plan, informed the Company on 7 April 2006 that it had on 7April 2006 purchased, and now held as bare trustee of the Barclays GroupSharepurchase Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital of Barclays PLCfor the following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility(PDMRs) at a price of 693.50p per share: Director/PDMR Number of Shares Mr G A Hoffman 18Mr D L Roberts 18Mr J S Varley 18Mr L C Dickinson 7 The Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan now includes Matching Shares provided bythe Company on a 1:1 basis up to the first £600 per annum invested by theparticipant under the Plan. The number of shares purchased on 7 April 2006 foreach director/PDMR above includes the Matching Shares. The revised total shareholding for each director following these transactions isas follows: Director Beneficial Holding Non Beneficial Holding Mr G A Hoffman 317,123 -Mr D L Roberts 219,185 -Mr J S Varley 374,748 - In addition to the interests shown above, the trustees of all the Barclays Groupemployees' benefit trusts hold a total of 159,905,069 ordinary shares inBarclays PLC. The Chairman and the executive directors of Barclays are amongstthe potential beneficiaries under these trusts and are therefore regarded forCompanies Act purposes as being interested in the Barclays PLC ordinary sharesheld in them. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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