10th Mar 2006 14:15
John Wood Group PLC ("Company") The Company was informed that on 6 March 2006, the Trustees of the John WoodGroup PLC Employee Share Trust (the "EST"): * transferred 75,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a consideration, of 17¢â€¦â€œ pence per share being 0.0145% of the share capital of the Company, to employees of the Company, and its subsidiaries, exercising share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Approved Executive Share Option Scheme and the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme (together "Schemes"). Following these transactions, the EST holds a total of 20,009,440 ordinaryshares representing 3.883% 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 Leslie J Thomas and Mark Papworth. Each of suchdirectors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in the sharesheld by the EST. The transactions noted above do not involve any of the namedexecutive directors 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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