1st Jul 2005 10:50
Scottish & Southern Energy PLC01 July 2005 The Company was notified on 30 June 2005 by Computershare Investor Services plc,the provider of the all employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the followingpurchases in the Company's ordinary shares:- a. that 27,196 shares were purchased and allocated at £10.085 using participating employees' gross salary ('Partnership Shares'). b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and purchased and allocated a further 13,446 shares at 10.085 ('Matching Shares'). The Company gives employees 1 Matching Share for each Partnership Share bought by them up to a maximum of 5 Matching Shares per month. The purchase was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction withComputershare Investor Services plc for the monthly purchase of Partnership andMatching Shares. The interests of Executive directors of the Company in the transactions were asfollows: Directors Number of Number Percentage Total holding Total Partnership of of issued following percentage of Shares Matching class notification shares in Shares issue following notificationColin 12 5 0.000002% 21,704 0.003%Hood Ian 12 5 0.000002% 64,633 0.008%Marchant AlistairPhillips-Davies 12 5 0.000002% 13,197 0.002% GregorAlexander 12 5 0.000002% 9,332 0.001% This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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