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60 Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2006
Report of the Directors (continued)
Report of the Remuneration Committee (continued)
Executive Directors’ interests – share capital
The interests in the share capitals of NV and PLC and their group companies of those who were Executive Directors at 31 December
2006 and of their immediate families were as shown in the table below:
Shares held at Shares held at
1January 2006 31 December 2006
(excluding unvested (excluding unvested
Name Share type(a) matching shares)(b) matching shares)
Patrick Cescau(c) NV 69 351 85 059
PLC 40 230 52 347
Kees van der Graaf NV 18 708 23 157
PLC 12 037 16 718
Ralph Kugler NV 41 628 45 396
PLC 16 264 20 124
Rudy Markham NV 127 044 161 265
PLC 64 606 113 329
(a) NV shares are ordinary €0.16 shares and PLC shares are ordinary 31⁄9pshares.
(b) The numbers have been converted into the new denomination following the NV/PLC share split and share consolidation which took place
on 22 May 2006.
(c) Balances include under NV 38 715 NV New York shares and under PLC 10 220 PLC ADRs.
The Executive Directors, in common with other employees of PLC and its United Kingdom subsidiaries, had beneficial interests in
19 454 453 PLC ordinary shares at 1 January 2006 (converted into the new denomination following the shares split and consolidation)
and 16 678 871 PLC ordinary shares at 31 December 2006, acquired by the Unilever Employee Share Trust (Jersey) for the purpose of
satisfying options and vesting of shares under various group shareplans (including the PLC Executive Option Plans and the UK
Employee ShareSave Plan). Further information, including details of the NV and PLC ordinary shares acquired by certain group
companies in connection with other share-based compensation plans, is given in note 29 on pages 117 to 121.
The voting rights of the Directors who hold interests in the share capitals of NV and PLC are the same as for other holders of the class
of shares indicated. None of the Directors’ or other executive officers’ shareholdings amounts to morethan 1% of the issued shares in
that class of share. Except as stated above, all shareholdings are beneficial.
The only changes in the interests of the Executive Directors and their families in NV and PLC ordinary shares between 31 December
2006 and 1March 2007 were that:
• The holding of the Unilever Employee Share Trust (Jersey) has reduced to 16 313 295 PLC ordinary shares; and
• Kees van der Graaf, Ralph Kugler and Rudy Markham each acquired further interests in 18 PLC ordinary shares during January and
February due to monthly ShareBuy purchases.