19th May 2006 13:54
Standard Chartered PLC19 May 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 the Company'semployee share schemes has advised under a notification dated 18 May 2006 thatbetween 29 March 2006 and 17 May 2006 they disposed of a total of 1,842,971Standard Chartered PLC ordinary 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 6,243,463 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 with the exception of KaiNargolwala who was issued with 594,367 shares following the exercise of anExecutive Share Option (full details of this exercise were given in theannouncement released on 10 April 2006 RNS announcement 2959B) the followingdirectors were not connected with the transaction detailed above: Bryan Sanderson, Mervyn Davies, Mike DeNoma, Richard Meddings and Peter Sands. Terry SkippenAssistant Group Secretary 19 May 2006 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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