22 Mar 2005 11:42
Oxford Biomedica PLC22 March 2005 Oxford BioMedica plc ("the Company") Directors' Interest in Shares and Share Options Oxford BioMedica (OXB:L) The Company today announced that Peter Nolan and AndrewWood, both directors of the Company, had exercised options over 227,731 and262,346 1p ordinary shares respectively. The exercise price was 15p per share.The options have been exercised now because they were granted on 7 April 1998,and if not exercised, would otherwise lapse on 7 April 2005. The option sharesare subject to a block listing, so are already listed. Including the sharesallotted on exercise of these options, the total number of the Company's issuedshares is now 374,019,466. Peter Nolan and Andrew Wood have both sold today allthe shares allotted on the exercise of these options at 19 pence per share. The total interests of Peter Nolan and Andrew Wood in the Company's 1p ordinaryshares and share options following these transactions are: Shares Share options -------------------------- --------- ------- Peter Nolan 87,780 883,498Andrew Wood 128,950 1,242,750 Andrew WoodCompany Secretary, Oxford BioMedica plc22 March 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange