9th Jan 2007 17:25
QinetiQ Group plc09 January 2007 QinetiQ Group plc 9 January 2007 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING - Purchase of ordinary shares in QinetiQGroup plc ("Shares" and the "Company" respectively) by Directors of the Companyunder its Share Incentive Plan ("SIP"). The SIP trustee, Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"), notified theCompany on 8 January 2007 that the following Directors and other PersonsDischarging Managerial Responsibility for the Company acquired Shares under theSIP on 23 August 2006 and the Trustee notified the Company on 9 January 2007that the following Directors and other Persons Discharging ManagerialResponsibility for the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 9 January 2007,in each case, held through the Trustee: Number of Dividend Number of Aggregate number of Shares held Shares acquired on Shares beneficially following 23 August 2006 acquired * acquisition (across all accounts)DirectorsDoug Webb 7 84 618,957PersonsDischargingManagerialResponsibilityLyntonBoardman 6 66 857,554Andrew Sleigh 7 84 2,787,858 * The Number of Shares acquired includes 63 Partnership Shares (except forLynton Boardman which includes 50 Partnership Shares) acquired at 198.25 penceand 21 Matching Shares (except for Lynton Boardman which includes 16 MatchingShares) awarded at 198.25 pence. Both partnership and matching elements areregistered in the name of the Trustee. The SIP operates as follows. Each month the Trustee uses participants' contributions (which may not exceed£125 per participant per month) to purchase shares in the market. These sharesare called "Partnership Shares". At the same time the Company allots to participants via the Trustee or instructsthe Trustee to purchase in the market one "Matching Share" for every threePartnership Shares purchased that month. Dividends paid by the Company to the Trustee in respect of the Partnership andMatching Shares are used by the Trustee to purchase shares in the market. Theseshares are called "Dividend Shares". 9 January 2007END This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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