31st Mar 2008 14:43
Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc31 March 2008 For Immediate Release 31 March 2008 Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (the "Company") PDMR Shareholding Notification of Option Exercise On 28 March 2008 the following Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilityexercised his option to purchase the number of ordinary shares of 10 pence eachset out in the table below in the capital of the Company. These options weregranted on the date shown below pursuant to the Company's 2004 Stock OptionPlan: Name Date of Grant Number of Shares Exercised Bassam Kanaan 12 October 2004 110,000 On 28 March 2008, the Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility disposed of the following number of shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of the options set out above: Name Date of Disposal Market Price on Disposal Number of Shares Disposed Bassam Kanaan 28 March 2008 £4.863048 110,000 As a result of the above transactions the Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility listed below now has the following holdings in the ordinary sharecapital of the Company: Name Ordinary Shares in the Company Percentage of Share capital Bassam Kanaan 322,804 0.2% The issued share capital of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC is now 188,289,796 ordinary shares of 10 pence each. Date of Notification: 31 March 2008 Susan RingdalInvestor Relations Director020 7399 2760 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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