27th Mar 2006 15:55
Standard Chartered PLC27 March 2006 Standard Chartered PLC 1995 Employee Share Ownership Plan Trust (the "Trust") This is to advise you that Bedell Cristin Trustees Limited, the Trustee of theCompany's employee benefit trust used in connection with some of he Company'semployee share schemes has advised under a notification dated 24 March 2006 thaton 23 March 2006 they disposed of a total of 700,115 Standard Chartered PLCordinary shares of US$0.50 each. These shares were disposed of in connection with some of the Company's employeeshare schemes. Following this transaction the Trust held a total of 9,212,328 unallocatedStandard Chartered PLC ordinary shares of US$0.50 each. The following directors together with all employees are potential beneficiariesof the Trust and as a result of this transaction there has been a change in thenumber of shares they are interested in, however the directors were notconnected with the transaction detailed above:- Bryan Sanderson, Mervyn Davies, Mike DeNoma, Richard Meddings, Kai Nargolwalaand Peter Sands Charles B BrownGroup Company Secretary 27 March 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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