1st Jun 2015 15:30
Notification of transactions of directors, persons discharging managerial responsibilities or connected persons in accordance with DTR 3.1
The independent trustee of the SABMiller plc Employees' Benefit Trust (EBT) notified SABMiller plc (the Company) on 1 June 2015 that it had on 1 June 2015 exercised its discretion and released ordinary shares in the Company to persons discharging managerial responsibility (PDMRs), as summarised in the table below. These shares relate to value share awards made in 2011 under the SABMiller plc Executive Share Award Plan 2008 which were released to the participants during the financial year ended 31 March 2015 based on the Company's TSR out-performance of the median of the comparator group up to the end of the month prior to their respective release dates.
As previously announced, one third of those shares were released to the participants during the year ended 31 March 2015, with the remaining two-thirds of the shares being deferred and eligible for release in two further equal tranches on 1 June 2015 and 1 June 2016. There is no opportunity for the deferred shares to be retested against any future TSR out-performance, and the deferred shares remain subject to forfeiture under certain circumstances should a participant's employment terminate before the fifth anniversary of the date of the original award.
Although subject to the risk of forfeiture, participants are entitled to receive a notional dividend on their deferred shares, calculated by reference to dividends actually paid by the Company during the deferral period, and to be satisfied in the form of additional shares, subject to taxation, only once the deferred shares are free from forfeiture risk and finally released to the participants.
Name of PDMR | Deferred shares released on 1 June 2015 | Additional shares released on 1 June 2015
| Shares sold | Shares retained | Shares deferred until 1 June 2016 |
K G Lippert | 15,822 | 75 | 6,669 | 9,228 | 15,823 |
A Mervis | 3,037 | 58 | 1,238 | 1,857 | 3,038 |
The price per share sold on 1 June 2015 was £34.94.
Name of contact and telephone number for queries
Bill Warner: 01483 264268
Name of duly authorised officer of issuer responsible for making notification
Stephen Shapiro
Group Company Secretary
1 June 2015
Related Shares:
SAB.L