Exhibit 99.8
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC
Notification of Directors’ and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities’ (PDMRs) Interests pursuant to Disclosure Rules DR 3.1.4(R)(1)(a) and DR 3.1.4(R)(1)(b), a disclosure made pursuant to Companies Act 1985 Section 324 as extended by Section 328.
Gareth Davis, Robert Dyrbus, David Cresswell, Frank Rogerson, Graham Blashill, Kathryn Brown, Alison Cooper and Matthew Phillips (together, “the Directors and PDMRs”).
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC was today advised that the Trustees of the Company’s Employee and Executive Benefit Trust (“the Trust”) purchased ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company as detailed below and the Directors and PDMRs being potential beneficiaries under the Trust are deemed to have acquired a non-beneficial interest in such shares.
Date of Purchase | | | | Number Purchased | | Cost per share | |
13 February 2007 | | 48,360 | | £ | 21.9434 | |
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The Trustees of the Company’s Employee and Executive Benefit Trust also disposed of ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company as detailed below and the Directors and PDMRs being potential beneficiaries under the Trust are deemed to have disposed of a non-beneficial interest in such shares.
Date Disposed of | | | | Number Disposed of | |
13 February 2007 | | 143,132 | |
The above disposal was the result of the Trust transferring ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company to six participant Directors and PDMRs in the Company’s Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) following the exercise of options granted on 18 November 2006 upon the satisfaction of the performance conditions.
These shares were previously contingent rights for each Director and PDMR.
Name | | | | Number of options exercised
and shares acquired | |
Gareth Davis | | 47,872 | |
Robert Dyrbus | | 30,464 | |
David Cresswell | | 21,760 | |
Frank Rogerson | | 21,760 | |
Kathryn Brown | | 10,638 | |
Alison Cooper | | 10,638 | |
As a result of the above, the Employee and Executive Benefit Trust now holds a total of 1,001,972 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company.
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC was today also advised that the following directors and PDMRs sold ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company in order, amongst other things, to satisfy their Income Tax liabilities arising on the exercise of options under the LTIP as detailed above.
The respective sales are detailed below: -
Name | | | | Date sold | | Price per share
(pounds sterling) | | Number Sold | |
Gareth Davis | | 13 February 2007 | | £ | 22.03 | | 33,500 | |
Robert Dyrbus | | 13 February 2007 | | £ | 22.03 | | 21,500 | |
Graham Blashill | | 14 February 2007 | | £ | 21.84 | | 6,000 | |
David Cresswell | | 13 February 2007 | | £ | 22.03 | | 19,562 | |
Frank Rogerson | | 13 February 2007 | | £ | 22.03 | | 13,922 | |
Kathryn Brown | | 13 February 2007 | | £ | 22.03 | | 4,362 | |
The directors’ holdings of ordinary shares as at today’s date are set out below: -
Name | | | | Holding at
14 February 2007 | | Holding at
30 September 2006 | |
Gareth Davis | | 366,349 | | 330,289 | |
Robert Dyrbus | | 236,644 | | 213,944 | |
Graham Blashill | | 91,343 | | 90,885 | |
David Cresswell | | 99,916 | | 89,894 | |
Frank Rogerson | | 104,747 | | 88,831 | |
Copies of our announcements are available on our website www.imperial-tobacco.com
Trevor Williams
Deputy Company Secretary
