Director/PDMR Shareholding (3442Y)

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RNS Number : 3442Y

Western & Oriental plc

21 December 2010

21 December 2010

Western & Oriental plc ("the Company")

Director's Dealing

Western & Oriental, the luxury and specialist travel group, today announces that it has been notified by one of its Directors, Mr Rajinder Kumar, of a change in his interest over the shares of the Company.

Mr Kumar notified the Company on 17 December 2010 that a family trust had acquired 2 million ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 1.5p per share on 8 December 2010.

Mr Kumar, along with his two daughters, one of whom is under the age of 18, are beneficiaries of the trust, and Mr Kumar is therefore deemed to have an interest in the shares acquired.

In addition to the interest notified above, Mr Kumar has a personal holding of 26.5m shares in the Company which were acquired before his appointment as a Director on 30 November 2010.

As a result of the share purchase Mr Kumar's beneficial interest in the ordinary shares of the Company has changed from 26,500,000 (7.37%) to 28 500,000 ordinary shares (7.92%).

As at the date of this announcement, the Company has 359,664,161 ordinary shares in issue.

Enquiries:

 
 Western & Oriental plc 
 Andrew Neil               020 7821 4078 
 
 Collins Stewart 
 Adrian Hadden             020 7523 8350 
 
 

About Western & Oriental plc

Western & Oriental is a specialist luxury travel group with a number of established high quality brands. The company was admitted to trading on AIM under the ticker symbol WEST in March 2006. The Group acts as a tour operator, travel agent and conference and incentive organisers, offering a premium service for tailor-made and specialist packaged holiday programmes to destinations worldwide.

For more information on Western & Oriental and its individual luxury travel brand websites, go to www.westernorientalplc.com.

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