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Deferred shares (audited information)
The outstanding awards granted to each director of the Company under The Sage Group Deferred Bonus Plan are as follows:
Director
Shares at
30 September
2012
number
G S Berruyer 12,716 – (12,716) – – 10 December 2011
12,404 – – – 12,404 10 January 2014
25,120 – (12,716) – 12,404
D H Clayton 9,062 – – (9,062) – 10 January 2014
– 2,186 – (2,186) – 12 December 2014
9,062 2,186 – (11,248) –
P S Harrison 9,709 – – – 9,709 10 January 2014
– 2,602 – – 2,602 12 December 2014
9,709 2,602 – – 12,311
Total 43,891 4,788 (12,716) (11,248) 24,715
Notes:
• Awards of shares will vest on the third anniversary of the date of grant. In the event that a director ceases to be an employee of the Group for reasons other than death,
retirement, redundancy, injury, ill-health or disability before the third anniversary of the date of grant then the rights to the award will lapse, unless the Remuneration Committee
recommend otherwise.
• Awards are not subject to further performance conditions once granted.
• No variations were made in the terms of the awards in the year.
• Mr D H Clayton ceased to be a director of the company on 29 February 2012.
• The market price of a share on 9 December 2011, the date before awards above vested in the year ended 30 September 2012 was 286.60p. The market price of a share on
10 December 2008, the date on which these awards were granted was 178.70p.
Interests in shares
The interests of each person who was a director of the Company as at 30 September 2012 (together with interests held by his or her connected persons) were:
Director
Ordinary
shares at
30 September
2012
number
G S Berruyer 663,360 411,289
P S Harrison 278,277 143,145
D Brydon 40,000 –
T Ingram 3,600 3,600
R Markland 5,000 5,000
I Mason 10,000 10,000
M E Rolfe 10,000 10,000
Total 1,010,237 583,034
Notes:
• There have been no changes in the directors’ holdings in the share capital of the Company, as set out in the table above, between 30 September 2012 and the date of this report.
Significant awards to past directors
No awards were made to any person who was not a director at the time the award was made but who was previously a director.
Approved by the Board of directors and signed on its behalf:
R Markland
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
5 December 2012
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