13th Mar 2008 07:00
Thomas Cook Group PLC12 March 2008 Thomas Cook Group PLC12 March 2008 Thomas Cook Group plc Director shareholdings Thomas Cook Group plc announces that each of the following executive directors: Manny Fontenla-NovoaLudger Heuberg has received awards under the Thomas Cook Group plc 2007 Performance Share Plan(the 'Plan'). The awards were made by the trustee of the Thomas Cook Group plc2007 Employee Benefit Trust ('Thomas Cook EBT'). The award for Mr Fontenla-Novoawas granted as a nil cost option. The award for Mr Heuberg was granted as acontingent share award. Further details of the awards are set out below: Date awards granted: 11 March 2008 The awards were made at no cost to the director The awards were made over the following numbers of ordinary shares of Euro0.10each in the capital of Thomas Cook Group plc: Manny Fontenla-Novoa 389,576Ludger Heuberg 225,265 The awards may be exercised at no cost to the director. The nil cost optiongranted to Mr Fontenla-Novoa will vest and become exercisable three years fromthe date of grant subject to performance conditions being satisfied and willlapse if not exercised within ten years of the date of grant. The contingentshare award made to Mr Heuberg will vest automatically three years from the dateof grant subject to performance conditions being satisfied and at this point theshares will be transferred to him. Following the above awards, these directors have the total holdings of sharesand awards set out below Director Total holding Percentage of Number of Percentage of of Euro 0.10 issued capital awards under issued capital ordinary shares the Plan M Fontenla-Novoa 70,463 0.007% 673,360 0.069% L Heuberg 0 0.000% 352,893 0.036% Each of the executive directors falls within the class of discretionarybeneficiaries of the Thomas Cook Group plc 2007 Employee Benefit Trust and istherefore deemed, pursuant to the Companies Act 1985, to be interested in all ofthe 1,586,770 ordinary shares in the Company held by that trust. Such interestsare in addition to the interests disclosed above in relation to them. This notification is of a transaction notified in accordance with DR 3.1.4R(1) (a). Date of notification 12 March 2008 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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