24th May 2006 11:06
Morgan Crucible Co PLC24 May 2006 The Morgan Crucible Company plc The Company was informed that on 23rd May 2006 the Trustees of The MorganGeneral Employee Benefit Trust ("the Trust") acquired 99,555 Ordinary shares inthe capital of the Company at an average price of £2.417146 per share to satisfyfuture obligations arising from provisional share awards made under The MorganCrucible Long Term Incentive Plan 2004 and share options granted under TheMorgan Crucible Executive Share Option Scheme 2004. Following this purchase, the Trust holds a total of 4,819,635 Ordinary sharesrepresenting 1.642% of the share capital of the Company. The class ofdiscretionary beneficiaries for whom the Trust holds such shares consists ofemployees of the Company including executive directors Warren Decatur Knowlton,Mark Robertshaw, and Mark Lejman and these directors are accordingly deemed tobe beneficially interested in all of such shares held by the Trust. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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