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Fees for Non-Executive Directors
The fees for each of the Non-Executive Directors are determined by the Board after considering external market research. The Non-Executive Directors do
not take part in discussions on their remuneration.
Each of the Non-Executive Directors have letters of appointment substantially in the form suggested by the Code and each has a three-month notice
period with no compensation for loss of office. The Company has no age limit for Directors.
The dates of each contract are set out below.
Directors’ interests in shares and dates of service contracts
Ordinary shares of 0.1p
Director 2 April 2005 27 March 2004 Date of contract
C W Dunstone 304,578,535 306,528,535 26 June 2000
D P J Ross 199,840,759 214,840,759 4 July 2002
R W Taylor 2,276,806 2,276,806 2 March 2000
G Roux de Bezieux 9,938,670 12,038,670 26 June 2000
J H Dale 150,500 150,500 30 March 2001
Hans Roger Snook * 50,000 50,000 1 May 2002
Sir Brian Pitman 14,687 5,000 26 May 2005
J Gildersleeve ** 246,000 45,000 14 April 2005
A H Martin 12,461 12,461 26 May 2005
M Dawes *** 6,460,714 6,460,714 2 June 2003
* will stand down as Non-Executive Chairman on 28 July 2005
** to be appointed Non-Executive Chairman on 28 July 2005
*** will stand down on 28 July 2005
On 1 April 2004 C W Dunstone transferred 450,000 shares by way of a gift into The Charles Dunstone Charitable Trust, and D P J Ross sold
15,000,000 shares.
On 7 July 2004 J Gildersleeve purchased 201,000 shares.
On 3 August 2004 G Roux de Bezieux sold 2,000,000 shares and transferred 1,100,000 by way of a gift, of which 1,000,000 was to related parties.
On 3 November 2004 Sir Brian Pitman purchased 9,687 shares.
On 7 December 2004 C W Dunstone transferred 1,500,000 shares by way of a gift into The Charles Dunstone Charitable Trust.
On 20 January 2005 J H Dale exercised options and sold 296,000 shares.
G Roux de Bezieux has an interest in the shares of a subsidiary of the Group as disclosed in note 32 to the financial statements.
As potential beneficiaries under the Company Employee Share Ownership Trust (‘EBT’), the Executive Directors are deemed to be interested in all of the
shares held by the EBT, which at 2 April 2005 amounted to 7,455,929 shares.
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The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC Annual Report 2005