Director/PDMR Shareholding

3i Group PLC
08 July 2005

UK Listing Authority Disclosure Rules

DR 3.1


As potential beneficiaries of The 3i Group Employee Trust (the 'Trust') all
employees of 3i Group plc (the 'Company') and its subsidiaries have an interest
in all the Ordinary Shares ('Shares') of 50p each in the Company held by the
Trust for the purposes of section 324 of the Companies Act 1985.  These
employees include the persons discharging management responsibility in respect
of 3i Group plc for the purposes of the Disclosure Rules, being Philip Yea,
Simon Ball, Tony Brierley, Denise Collis, Michael Queen, Jo Taylor, Chris
Rowlands, Jonathan Russell and Paul Waller (the 'PDMR's').

On 7 July 2005, participants exercised options under the Company's Management
Equity Investment Plan ('MEIP') to acquire from the Trust 18,461 Shares at £nil
per Share.  The place of this transaction was Jersey.

Each of the PDMR's notified the Company of the change in their interest in the
Shares on 8 July 2005.


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