10th Jan 2006 12:10
John Wood Group PLC ("Company") The Company was informed that on 4 January 2006, the Trustees of the John WoodGroup PLC Employee Share Trust (the "EST"): * sold 8,125 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a ‚£2.1325 per share, being 0.00157% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to an exercise of share options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2002 Executive Share Option Scheme; * sold 6,275 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a ‚£2.1325 per share, being 0.00121% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to an exercise of share options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2003 Long Term Retention Plan. Following these transactions, the EST holds a total of 20,084,440 ordinaryshares representing 3.898% of the share capital of the Company.The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the EST holds such sharesconsists of employees of the Company, including the following executivedirectors of the Company: Allister G Langlands, Wendell R Brooks, Alan GSemple, Trevor M Noble and Leslie J Thomas. Each of such directors isaccordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in the shares held by the EST.The transactions noted above do not involve any of the named executivedirectors or any persons discharging managerial responsibility. Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification. IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY. ENDWOOD GROUP (JOHN) PLCRelated Shares:
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