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Ocado Group PLC

19 November 2015

DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING

OCADO GROUP PLC

19 November 2015

Ocado Group plc

Director/PDMR Notification

Ocado Group plc ("the Company") announces that it has received a notification, pursuant to the FCA's Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules 3.1.2R, on 17 November 2015, in connection with its directors' participation in the Ocado Share Incentive Plan ("SIP").

The SIP is a HMRC tax-advantaged all-employee share scheme, under which employees are able to purchase ordinary shares in the Company of 2 pence each at market value ("Partnership Shares"), using deductions from salary each month, and receive allocations of matching ordinary shares of 2 pence each ("Matching Shares").

The Ocado directors listed below (the "Directors") purchased the number of Partnership Shares set out in the table below, at a price of GBP3.418 per Partnership Share, and were allocated (for no consideration) the number of Matching Shares set out in the table below. These shares are held by the employee benefit trust for the SIP.

 
 Name             Position              Number          Number      Total      Total 
                                     of Partnership   of Matching   shares   SIP holding 
                                         Shares         Shares                 to-date 
---------------  -----------------  ---------------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
                  Chief Executive 
 Tim Steiner       Officer                44              6          50         2914 
---------------  -----------------  ---------------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
 Duncan           Chief Financial 
  Tatton-Brown     Officer                44              6          50         2868 
---------------  -----------------  ---------------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
 Mark             Operations 
  Richardson       Director               44              7          51         2919 
---------------  -----------------  ---------------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
                  Legal & 
                   Business 
 Neill             Affairs 
  Abrams           Director               44              7          51         2575 
---------------  -----------------  ---------------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
 

As a result of the above transaction, the interests of the Directors (and their connected persons) in the Company's ordinary shares (excluding any interests, options and awards under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan, Sharesave, 2001 Executive Share Option Scheme, 2014 Executive Share Option Scheme, Joint Share Ownership Scheme and Growth Incentive Plan) are:

 
 Name                    Number of       Percentage 
                          Ordinary        of issued 
                         Shares held    share capital 
---------------------  -------------  --------------- 
 Tim Steiner             28,773,048         4.6% 
---------------------  -------------  --------------- 
 Duncan Tatton-Brown      161,294          0.03% 
---------------------  -------------  --------------- 
 Mark Richardson           3,524          0.00056% 
---------------------  -------------  --------------- 
 Neill Abrams            1,913,828         0.31% 
---------------------  -------------  --------------- 
 

The SIP was approved by shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 11 May 2011.

For the purposes of DTR 3.1.3, the above transactions took place in the United Kingdom, with an issue date of 17 November 2015 and the Company/the Directors being notified on 17 November 2015.

Further information concerning each Director's other interests in shares and share schemes are set out in the Company's annual report and accounts for the 52 weeks ended 30 November 2014, except as otherwise amended by a subsequent announcement.

Enquiries:

Company Secretary

Ocado Group plc

Titan Court

3 Bishops Square

Hatfield Business Park

Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9NE

Fax: +44 (0)1707 227 997

email: company.secretary@ocado.com

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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