2 Mar 2009 12:14
2 March 2009
Cyril Sweett Group plc ('the Company')
Director Shareholding
The Company was notified on 27 February 2009 that on 27 February 2009 Francis Robert Ives (Executive Chairman), Dean Leslie Webster (Chief Executive Officer), Derek Ronald Pitcher (Executive Director, Operations), Christopher Roderick John Goscomb (Chief Financial Officer), Michael John Glidden Henderson (Non Executive Director), Roger Stanley Mabey (Non Executive Director) and Paul Nicholas Woollacott (Non Executive Director) bought ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of 25 pence per share, as follows:
| Beneficial holdings in the shares of the company prior to the share purchase | Shares purchased on 27 February 2009 | Beneficial holdings in the shares of the company following the share purchase | ||||
| Number of shares | % | Number of shares | Purchase price (pence per share) | Number of shares | % | |
| Mr C R J Goscomb | 6,042 | 0.01% | 40,000 | 25 | 46,042 | 0.08% |
| Mr M J G Henderson | 215,227 | 0.37% | 40,000 | 25 | 255,227 | 0.44% |
| Mr F R Ives | 2,759,191 | 4.79% | 40,000 | 25 | 2,799,191 | 4.86% |
| Mr R S Mabey | 215,052 | 0.37% | 40,000 | 25 | 255,052 | 0.44% |
| Mr D R Pitcher | 1,447,093 | 2.51% | 40,000 | 25 | 1,487,093 | 2.58% |
| Mr D L Webster | 889,006 | 1.54% | 20,000 | 25 | 909,006 | 1.58% |
| Mr P N Woollacott | - | - | 40,000 | 25 | 40,000 | 0.06% |
| 5,531,611 | 9.59% | 260,000 | 5,791,611 | 10.04% | ||
For further information, call:
Cyril Sweett Group plc 0207 061 9386
James Murray, Company Secretary
Brewin Dolphin Investment Banking 0845 270 8610
Andrew Kitchingman
Sean Wyndham-Quin
ENDS