12th Oct 2012 15:30
A. Notification of Interests in Shares
BG Group plc Share Incentive Plan 2008 ('SIP') - Partnership Shares
On 12 October 2012, the following Executive Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (PDMRs) were awarded the numbers of BG Group plc Ordinary Shares of 10p each (Shares) set out below under the terms of the SIP. As a result of these awards the interests in the ordinary share capital of BG Group plc have increased as shown.
| Partnership Shares awarded at a price of £13.335 per Share | Revised interest in Shares | |||
| Executive Directors | ||||
| Sir Frank Chapman | 57 | 1,516,447 | ||
| Fabio Barbosa
| 56 | 25,808 | ||
| Chris Finlayson
| 56 | 646 | ||
| Den Jones*
| 56 | 758 | ||
| PDMRs |
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| Ashley Almanza
| 57 | 53,070 | ||
| Robert Booker
| 57 | 25,542 | ||
| Sir John Grant
| 56 | 1,037 | ||
| Sami Iskander
| 56 | 12,319 | ||
| Graham Vinter
| 56 | 44,113 | ||
(*alternate director to Fabio Barbosa) |
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Note: The SIP is a HM Revenue & Customs approved all-employee share scheme. Under the rules of the SIP, partnership shares are awarded to all eligible employees at the lower of the market value at the beginning of the six-month accumulation period and the date the shares are acquired.
B. TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
BG Group plc also announces that it has today transferred to the Trustee of its SIP 20,000 Shares. The transferred Shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.
Following the above transfer, BG Group plc holds 212,127,392 Shares as treasury shares. The total number of Shares in issue (excluding Shares held as treasury shares) is 3,401,555,752.
BG Group plc
12 October 2012
Website www.bg-group.com
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