Directors' Shareholdings via EBT

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

3 January 2006

Notification of directors' interests: Companies Act 1985 s.329.

The Trustee of the Liontrust Asset Management Employee Trust has notified the
Company that it acquired in the market a total of 11,917 ordinary shares in the
Company on 23 December 2005 at a price of 310p per share. Following this
transaction, the Trust held a total of 3,539,428 ordinary shares in the Company
in which the following directors had an interest as potential beneficiaries: V.
K. Abrol, N. R. Legge, J. D. Lang and W. T. Pattisson. The Liontrust Asset
Management Employee Trust is a trust, which purchases or subscribes for
ordinary shares in the Company, so as to allow the Trustee to satisfy the
exercise of options granted under the Liontrust Enterprise Management Incentive
Scheme.

Enquiries:

Vinay Abrol

Tel: [phone]

Liontrust Asset Management PLC