17th Apr 2013 17:15
A. Notification of Interests in Shares
BG Group plc Share Incentive Plan 2008 ('SIP') - Free Shares & Partnership Shares
On 17 April 2013, 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.
| Free Shares awarded at a price of £10.79 per Share | Partnership Shares awarded at a price of £10.79 per Share | Revised interest in Shares | ||||
| Executive Directors | ||||||
| Chris Finlayson
| 278 | 70 | 994 | |||
| Martin Houston
| 278 | 69 | 911,716 | |||
| Den Jones
| - | 70 | 828 | |||
| PDMRs |
| |||||
| Robert Booker
| 278 | 69 | 25,889 | |||
| Malcolm Brown
| 278 | 70 | 95,611 | |||
| Christopher Cox
| 278 | 70 | 15,720 | |||
| Sir John Grant
| 278 | 70 | 2,436 | |||
| Sami Iskander
| - | 70 | 12,389 | |||
| Graham Vinter
| - | 70 | 45,146 | |||
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 355,986 Shares to the Trustee of its SIP and 28,541 Shares to the Trustee of its Global Partnership Plan. The transferred Shares were all formerly held as treasury shares.
Following the above transfer, BG Group plc holds 211,742,865 Shares as treasury shares. The total number of Shares in issue (excluding Shares held as treasury shares) is 3,403,218,721.
BG Group plc
17 April 2013
Website www.bg-group.com
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