21st Oct 2005 12:14
British American Tobacco PLC21 October 2005 DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trustnotified the Company on 21 October 2005 that between 17 October 2005 and 19October 2005 it had released 16,397 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinaryshares (the "Shares") to satisfy the exercise of options under the Company'sshare option scheme. Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British AmericanTobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 23,450,440 Shares. The following executive directors, together with other employees, are potentialbeneficiaries under the trust, and are therefore deemed to be technicallyinterested for Companies Act purposes but were not connected with thetransactions that took place between the above mentioned date: Mr P N Adams, MrP A Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro. Mrs A C GirlingDeputy Secretary 0207 845 1919 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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