Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (the "Company")

Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility (the "PDMRs") Interests

Amended announcement showing the correct number of shares sold by Arthur van Benthem.

Imperial Tobacco Group Long Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP")

Alison Cooper, Matthew Phillips, Helen Clatworthy, Fernando Dominguez Valdes-Hevia, Walter Prinz and Arthur van Benthem (together the "Directors and PDMRs").

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC was advised on 02 December 2014 that the Trustees of the Company's Employee and Executive Benefit Trust (the "Trust") transferred on 02 December 2014 ordinary shares of 10p each ("Shares") in the Company to six  participant Directors and PDMRs in the Company's LTIP following the exercise of the awards which vested on 4 November 2014.

These Shares were previously contingent rights for each Director and PDMR. 

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC was also advised on 02 December 2014 that the following Directors and PDMRs sold Shares in the Company, as detailed below, arising from the exercise of the Awards. 

The respective sales are detailed below: -

Following all of the above, the Directors' current shareholdings are:-

Trevor Williams

Deputy Company Secretary

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