20th Dec 2007 16:55
Purchase of ordinary shares of 6 14/81 pence in Centrica plc ("Shares" and the"Company", respectively) by Directors of the Company and Persons DischargingManagerial Responsibility (PDMRs) under its Share Incentive Plan ("SIP"). The SIP trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"), notifiedthe Company on 20 December 2007 that: (1) The following Directors and other Persons Discharging ManagerialResponsibility for the Company acquired Shares under the SIP on 19 December 2007held through the Trustee: \* T Number Aggregate Shares held of Shares Beneficially (across all accountsDirectors Acquired* following acquisition)Phil Bentley 51 623,718Sam Laidlaw 52 341,964Nick Luff 51 200,255Jake Ulrich 51 861,229 Persons Discharging Managerial ResponsibilityGrant Dawson 51 277,960Catherine May 51 6,197Anne Minto 51 195,698Chris Weston 51 133,947\* T * The 'Number of Shares Acquired' includes 34 Partnership shares (35 Partnershipshares for Sam Laidlaw with a higher residual balance) acquired at 359.75 penceper share and 17 Matching shares acquired at 366.42 pence per share. BothPartnership and Matching elements are registered in the name of the Trustee. (2) They had transferred 9,000 ordinary shares of 6 14/81 pence each from LloydsTSB Registrars Corporate Nominee Limited AESOP1 (Allocated shares) to Lloyds TSBRegistrars Corporate Nominee Limited AESOP2 (Unallocated shares). The transferwas made following the forfeiture of shares, under the rules of the SIP, byparticipants who have left the group since the last purchase and the shares hadbeen used towards December's allocation of Matching shares. The Directors listedabove, together with some 5,168 other employees, are participants in the SIP andare potentially interested in the remaining 570 shares held by Lloyds TSBRegistrars Corporate Nominee Limited AESOP2 left following the purchase. The SIP operates as follows -- Each month the Trustee uses participants' contributions (which may not exceed £125 per participant per month) to purchase shares in the market. These shares are called 'Partnership Shares'. -- At the same time the Company allots to participants via the Trustee one 'Matching Share' for every two partnership shares purchased that month (up to a maximum of 20 matching shares per month). -- Participants may change their monthly savings rate whenever they wish. However, Directors and others bound by the Company's Securities Dealing Code (the "Code") may not make such a change during a close period or when otherwise prohibited from dealing by the Code. Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
Centrica