Great Portland Estates PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (8551F)

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RNS Number : 8551F

Great Portland Estates PLC

01 August 2016

Company Announcements Office

London Stock Exchange

London EC2N 1HP

1 August 2016

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Director/PDMR Shareholding

Notification of monthly investment in the Great Portland Estates plc 2010 Share Incentive Plan ('SIP')

Barclays Bank Trust Company Limited (the 'Trustees'), Trustees of the Great Portland Estates plc's SIP, notified the Company on 29 July 2016 that they purchased a total of 1,367 ordinary 12.5p shares at a price of 672 pence per share on 29 July 2016 under the 'Partnership' and 'Matching' element of the Company's SIP.

Under the terms of the SIP each eligible participating employee can contribute from monthly salary to purchase 'Partnership Shares', and the Company matches this by awarding two 'Matching Shares' for every one 'Partnership Share' purchased by participating employees.

As participants in the SIP, the Executive Directors are deemed to have an interest in the shares held by the Trustees. In accordance with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4R (1), the Company gives notice that of the above shares acquired by the Trustees, the shares purchased on behalf of the Company's Executive Directors were as follows:

 
                   Number of          Number of       Total number 
                   Partnership         Matching         of shares 
                 shares acquired    shares acquired    within SIP 
                    under the          under the 
                   SIP for the        SIP for the 
                      month              month 
 T Courtauld           22                 44             5,301 
 N Sanderson           22                 44             4,005 
 N Thompson            22                 44             5,301 
 

Contact:

Great Portland Estates plc

Desna Martin

Company Secretary

020 7647 3093

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