1st Apr 2011 16:45
1 April 2011
Director/PDMR Shareholding: Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.4R(1)(a)
1. M D Harding, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility ("PDMR"), notified Barclays PLC (the "Company") on 31 March 2011 that on 30 March 2011 he and a person connected to him had sold 184,653 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 285.95 pence per share.
2. The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (ESAS) Employees' Benefit Trust (the "ESAS Trust") notified the Company on 31 March 2011 that a PDMR of the Company exercised the option detailed below on 30 March 2011. The number of shares under option that has been exercised includes the option granted on 1 March 2011 under ESAS which was granted over a proportion of shares which were provisionally allocated by the trustee under ESAS on 20 March 2008. The total exercise price payable on any exercise of an ESAS option is £1.
PDMR | Number of shares under option that has been exercised | Market price at date of exercise and sale (pence) | Shares sold on behalf of PDMR to satisfy withholding liabilities
| Shares sold in the market on behalf of PDMR |
M D Harding | 68,206 | 283.97 | 34,785 | 33,421 |
3. The independent trustee of the ESAS Trust notified the Company on 31 March 2011 that it had on 30 March 2011 sold 25,284 ordinary shares in the Company on behalf of M D Harding, a PDMR, at a price of 283.97 pence per share.
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