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Directors’ interests
The interests of directors holding office at the end of the year and their families in the company’s ordinary shares at 31 March 2007
and 1 April 2006, or date of appointment if later, are shown below:
No. of shares
Beneficial holdings 2007 2006
Sir Christopher Blanda674,386b674,257b
B Verwaayena1,238,827 951,497
F Barraulta,e 107b–
A Greena204,629b152,645b
H Lalania36,358b,c 14,360b
I Livingstona349,901b,c 313,110b
P Reynoldsa147,169b,c 98,050b
M Alahuhta 20,000 20,000
M van den Bergh 13,621 12,040
C Brendish 30,920 30,920
P Hodkinson 4,622 4,622
Baroness Jay 10,185 8,214
D Lathend––
J F Nelson 50,000 50,000
C G Symon 15,069 15,069
Total 2,795,794 2,344,784
aAt 31 March 2007, Sir Christopher Bland and each of the executive directors, as potential beneficiaries, had a non-beneficial interest in 20,797,054 shares (2006 – 24,809,976) held in trust by Ilford
Trustees (Jersey) Limited for allocation to employees under the employee share plans. They each also had a non-beneficial interest in 30,378 shares (2006 – 50,342) held in trust by Halifax Corporate
Trustees Limited for participants in the BT Group Employee Share Investment Plan.
bIncludes free shares awarded under the BT Group Employee Share Investment Plan.
cDuring the period from 1 April 2007 to 15 May 2007, Paul Reynolds and Hanif Lalani each purchased 473 shares and Ian Livingston purchased 472 shares under the BT Group Employee Share
Investment Plan.
dDeborah Lathen was appointed as a director on 1 February 2007.
eFranc¸ois Barrault was appointed as a director on 24 April 2007.
The directors, as a group, beneficially own less than 1% of the company’s ordinary shares.
Performance graph
This graph illustrates, as required by the Companies Act 1985,
the performance of BT Group plc measured by TSR relative to a
broad equity market index over the past five years. We consider
the FTSE 100 to be the most appropriate index against which to
measure performance for these purposes, as BT has been a
constituent of the FTSE 100 throughout the five-year period and
the index is widely used. TSR is the measure of the returns that
a company has provided for its shareholders, reflecting share
price movements and assuming reinvestment of dividends.
Report of the Directors Corporate governance
62 BT Group plc Annual Report & Form 20-F