Directors' Dealings

API Group PLC
14 December 1999


API GROUP PLC ('the Company')

On 8 December 1999 100,000 ordinary shares were purchased
on behalf of the API Benefit Trust ('the Trust') at 340
pence per share.  A further 85,000 ordinary shares were
purchased by the Trust on 9 December 1999, also at 340
pence per share.  Following these purchases, the API
Benefit Trust, in which Mr M Smith and Mr D Holt,
directors of the Company, have a beneficial interest, is
interested in 588,000 shares, representing 1.73 per cent
of the Company's total issued ordinary share capital.

14 December 1999