OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLC - Director/PDMR Shareholding

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NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS' DEALINGSOxford Instruments plc (the "Company") announces that the following directors'dealings took place:On 8 January 2014, the following directors acquired ordinary shares of 5p eachin the Company upon the exercise of options granted under the OxfordInstruments 2001 Executive Share Option Scheme "ESOS" and the OxfordInstruments plc Senior Executive Long Term Incentive Scheme "SELTIS". Inaccordance with the terms of the ESOS, all options (except for approvedoptions) were "net gain" settled as share appreciation rights by reference tothe mid market closing price of the Company's shares on 7 January 2014 (1811p)and the relevant option price. A number of shares from both the ESOS and SELTISwere then sold in the market between 8 and 10 January 2014 at an average priceof 1723.7955p, with the balance being retained by the directors, as follows:-                     ESOS and SELTIS Options exercised and shares sold                     No. of       Base option No. of       Shares     Shares                     options      price       shares       sold       retained                     exercised                acquiredJonathan Flint       52,916       705p        32,317*      52,273     9,628Chief Executive      2,084        705p        2,084                     27,500       Nil         27,500Kevin Boyd           35,873       705p        21,909*      35,631     5,278Finance Director     19,000       Nil         19,000Claire Flint**       22,395       705p        13,677*      14,592     1,690                     2,605        705p        2,605*shares acquired equal to "net gain"**Claire Flint is an employee of the Company and a Connected Person to JonathanFlint by way of marriage.Following this transaction, Jonathan Flint and Kevin Boyd have increased theirshareholdings and now hold the following number of ordinary shares of 5p in theCompany:-                          Jonathan Flint     Kevin Boyd         Claire Flint**                          Chief Executive    Finance DirectorInterest in shares before      191,464             86,295            2,973notificationTotal interest in shares       201,092             91,573            4,663following thisnotification% of issued share capital       0.35%              0.16%             0.01%This notice is given in fulfilment of the obligations under DTR 3.1.4R(1)10 January 2014Susan Johnson-BrettCompany SecretaryOxford Instruments plcTel: 01865 393324Email: [email protected]