Directors' Shareholdings via EBT

Liontrust Asset Management PLC

7 November 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 sold in the market a total of 20,870 ordinary shares in the
Company on 7 November 2006 at a price of 350p per share. Following this
transaction, the Trust held a total of 3,844,432 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