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Countrywide plc

Notification of Transactions of Directors / Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility

RE: Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

The notifications listed below were all received under Paragraph 3.1.2 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Countrywide plc (the "Company") announces that it received notification on 7 January 2014 of the following acquisitions of 256 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") under the Countrywide Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), namely the following Directors / Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (each a "PDMR") were allocated Ordinary Shares on 6 January 2014 under the Plan, by Capita IRG Trustees Limited (the "Trustee"):

Name of Director / PDMR               

Number of Partnership Shares

Number of Matching Shares

Total number of Ordinary Shares

Grenville Turner

21

11

32

Jim Clarke

21

11

32

Nigel Stockton

21

11

32

Paul Creffield

21

11

32

Nick Dunning

21

11

32

Bob Scarff

21

11

32

Graham Bell

21

11

32

Alyn North

21

11

32

Partnership Shares are those Ordinary Shares purchased on behalf of the employee using an amount which the employee has chosen to have deducted from his salary, and Matching Shares are those awarded to the employee by the Company for nil consideration in respect of the Partnership Shares purchased.

The Partnership Shares were purchased and the Matching Shares were awarded at a price per share of 588.63 pence.

The Ordinary Shares are held by the Trustee and in the name of the Trustee. Partnership Shares can normally be sold at any time. Matching Shares cannot normally be disposed of for a period of three years after the award date.

As a result of the above transactions, interests of Directors / PDMRs in the Company's Ordinary Shares (excluding outstanding options and/or awards held under the Company's other employee share incentive plans) are as follows:

Name of Director / PDMR               

Total number of Ordinary Shares held following the acquisitions notified above

Grenville Turner

2,310,962

Jim Clarke

1,579,995

Nick Dunning

1,342,012

Paul Creffield

869,041

Bob Scarff

421,405

Nigel Stockton

305,983

Graham Bell

7,449

Alyn North

100

Enquiries:

Jim Clarke

07979 477299

Gareth Williams (Company Secretary)

8 January 2014

Countrywide plc
17 Duke Street
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 1HP
United Kingdom

WEBSITE: http://www.countrywide.co.uk


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