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Unilever Group Directors’ remuneration and interests
Report to the shareholders (continued)
Directors’ interests: share capital
The interests in the share capitals of NV and PLC and their group companies of those who were directors at the end of 1999 and of their
families were as shown in the tables below:
1 January 31 December
NV (ordinary shares) Fl. 1 Fl. 1.12
A Burgmans 856 6 920
NWA FitzGerald 5 504 6 175
AC Butler – 625
A Kemner 870 1 454
RHP Markham – 582
J Peelen 894 798
RM Phillips 8 694 7 762
NV (preference shares) Fl. 0.10
A Burgmans – 7 750
A Kemner – 1 628
J Peelen – 894
PLC (ordinary shares) 1.25p 1.4p
NWA FitzGerald 33 140 40 357
175 632 840
(a)
156 815 034
(a)
A Burgmans 17 894 20 627
AC Butler 24 828 27 243
A Kemner 14 684 18 605
RHP Markham 43 140 43 246
J Peelen 9 342 8 340
RM Phillips 10 572 9 439
Margarine Union (1930) Limited (shares)
NWA FitzGerald 600
(a)
600
(a)
(a) Held jointly as a trustee of the Leverhulme Trust and the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust with no beneficial interest.
On 10 May 1999 Unilever’s share capital was consolidated on the basis of 100 new shares of Fl.1.12 each for every 112 existing NV
shares of Fl.1 each and 100 new shares of 1.4p each for every 112 existing PLC shares of 1.25p each.
The directors, in common with other employees of PLC and its United Kingdom subsidiaries, have beneficial interests in the
undermentioned NV and PLC ordinary shares acquired for the purpose of satisfying options granted under the PLC 1985 Executive Share
Option and Sharesave Schemes and the Unilever PLC International 1997 Executive Share Option Scheme.
1 January 31 December
Fl. 1/1.25p Fl. 1.12/1.4p
All directors – NV ordinary shares 551 802 —
– PLC ordinary shares 39 623 389 42 492 210
On election of PJ Cescau as a director on 4 May 1999 the trusts held 42 129 131 PLC 1.25p shares and 1 099 623 NV Fl. 1 shares.
Further information, including details of the NV and PLC ordinary shares acquired by certain group companies in connection with other
share option schemes, is given in note 20 on pages 21 and 22.
The only changes in the interests of the directors and of their families in NV and PLC ordinary shares between 31 December 1999 and
29 February 2000 were that:
(i) the holding of the Unilever Employee Share Trusts has reduced to 42 318 616 PLC shares;
(ii) Mr NWA FitzGerald acquired 30 PLC shares;
(iii) Mr J Peelen acquired and sold 37 396 NV shares through the exercise of options granted under the NV Executive Share Option
Scheme.
39 Unilever Annual Accounts 1999