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FIRSTGROUP PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

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London, July 29

FirstGroup plc

29 July 2021

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Exercise of options under LTIP and EABP schemes and partial sale to

satisfy resulting Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities

FirstGroup plc (the "Company") has been notified that Chief Executive Matthew Gregory exercised the following options over ordinary shares of 5 pence each which were awarded in 2018, in accordance with the terms of the LTIP and EABP plans:


Plan	Number of shares under option
Long Term Incentive Plan 2018 (“LTIP 2018”)	166,811
Executive Annual Bonus Plan 2018 (“EABP 2018”)	86,958

Matthew’s beneficial holding of ordinary shares in the Company has increased from 557,061 to 691,144. As part of the exercise, Matthew sold 119,686 of the shares, which was the amount required to satisfy the resulting Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities.

The transactions listed above took place in London (XLON) on 28 July 2021.

This notification is made in accordance with Article 19 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014.

Enquiries:

Seema Kamboj, Deputy Company Secretary

+44 (0) 7583 675724

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associateda)Name

Matthew Gregory2Reason for the notificationa)Position/status

Chief Executiveb)Initial notification /AmendmentInitial3Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitora)NameFirstGroup plcb)LEI549300DEJZCPWA4HKM934Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducteda)Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification codeOrdinary shares of 5p each

GB0003452173b)Nature of the transaction

Exercise of option under the LTIP 2018
Exercise of option under the EABP 2018

c)Price(s) and volume(s)


Price(s)	Volume(s)
1. NIL 2. NIL	166,811 86,958

- Aggregated volume

- Price

253,769

NILe)Date of the transaction28 July 2021f)Place of the transactionLondon Stock Exchange (XLON)Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted4Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducteda)Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification codeOrdinary shares of 5p each

GB0003452173b)Nature of the transaction

Subsequent sale to cover Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities c)Price(s) and volume(s)


Price(s)	Volume(s)
86.40 pence	119,686

d)Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

119,686

£103,408.70e)Date of the transaction28 July 2021f)Place of the transactionLondon Stock Exchange (XLON)Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted