Character Group PLC
12 May 2005
The Character Group plc
12 May 2005
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Character Group plc ('Character Group' or 'the Company')
Dealings by Directors
The Company was informed today that, on 11 May 2005, the TOPS Pension Scheme
purchased 25,000 ordinary shares of 5p each in the capital of the Company
('Ordinary Shares') at a price of 33.0 pence per share. Since 4 May 2005, the
TOPS Pension Scheme has acquired a total of 125,000 Ordinary Shares. Richard
King, Kiran Shah and Jon Diver, executive directors of the Company (the
'Directors'), are trustees of and beneficially interested in the TOPS Pension
Scheme.
Following this purchase, the interests of the Directors are as follows:
Name of Number of Ordinary Percentage of issued share
Director Shares capital
Richard King 1 5,345,428 10.12
Kirankumar Premchand
Shah 2 5,645,000 10.69
Jonathan James Diver 1,690,640 3.20
The Trustees of the TOPS
Pension Scheme 3 1,725,000 3.27
Orbis Pension Trustees
Limited 4 285,000 0.54
Notes:
1. Included in the interests of R. King are his interests in 1,885,428
Ordinary Shares held by Cedarberg Investments Limited and 320,000 Ordinary
Shares held by Mrs M.H. King (the spouse of Mr. King).
2. Included in the interests of K.P. Shah are the interests of Sarissa
Holdings Limited in 5,620,000 Ordinary Shares.
3. Each of R. King, K.P. Shah and J.J. Diver are beneficiaries under these
pension scheme arrangements and are each, accordingly, also interested
in the pension scheme's holding of Ordinary Shares.
4. Orbis Pension Trustees Limited is the Trustee of the Company's Employee
Share Ownership Trust. Each of the Directors is deemed to be interested
in such holding of Ordinary Shares by virtue of being within the class of
beneficiaries defined by such Trust.
This information is provided by RNS
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