21st Dec 2007 11:20
Stagecoach Group PLC21 December 2007 Exercise of Executive Share Options Stagecoach Group plc ("the Company") has been notified on 20 December 2007, ofthe following transaction in the securities of the Company by a persondischarging managerial responsibility. The transactions have been notified inaccordance with Disclosure Rule 3.1.4R(1)(a). The Company received notification that the undermentioned employee exercisedExecutive Share Options over Ordinary Shares of 12/19th pence each in theCompany and subsequently sold those shares. The Executive Share Options exercised were as follows: +--------------+-----------+----------------+--------------+------------+| Name | Original |Number of | Option Price |Total Option|| | Date of |Ordinary Shares | Per | Value £ || | Grant |Under Option | | || | | | Share £ | || | | | | |+--------------+-----------+----------------+--------------+------------+|Leslie | 25.06.2004| 196,991| £0.8575| £168,920||Warneford | | | | |+--------------+-----------+----------------+--------------+------------+ The 196,991 Ordinary Shares of 12/19th pence were sold at an average price of£2.661878 per share, resulting in total proceeds of £524,366 before deductingtransaction costs and taxes. Following these transactions, the individual's interests in the securities ofthe Company are as follows: +--------------+----------------+-----------+------------+-------------+| Name | Number of |% of | Number of | Number of || |Ordinary Shares |Ordinary | Ordinary | Deferred || | held |Shares in |Shares Held | Ordinary || | |issue | Under |Shares Under || | | | Options | Executive || | | | |Participation|| | | | | Plan || | | | | || | | | | |+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------+-------------+|Leslie | 79,875| 0.01%| 84,922| 103,375||Warneford | | | | |+--------------+----------------+-----------+------------+-------------+ In addition, Les Warneford is a potential beneficiary of the Stagecoach GroupEmployee Benefit Trust 2003 and the Stagecoach Group Qualifying Employee ShareTrust, which together hold 4,998,711 Ordinary Shares of 12/19th pence each,representing 0.7% of the total Ordinary Shares in issue. For further information, please contact: Stagecoach Group plc www.stagecoachgroup.com Ross Paterson, Company Secretary 01738 442111 Steven Stewart, Director of Corporate communications 01738 442111 21 December 2007 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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