Director/PDMR Shareholding

Avon Rubber PLC
08 December 2005


                      RIS Announcement - Lapse of awards
 

Avon Rubber plc ('the Company'): Employee Share Plans - Announcement of 
transaction in ordinary shares of £1 each (the 'Shares').

The Company announces that on 19 October 2005, nil-cost options over Shares (the
'Options') granted under the Company's Performance Share Plan to executive
directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMRs'), as listed
below, lapsed because the performance conditions attached to those Options were
not met.

The awards were granted on the date shown below at nil-cost.

                                                           Number of Shares    
Name of Director/PDMR             Date of grant            subject to the Option

Raymond Leonard Barker            09/12/2002               29,013

David Andrew William Bedford      09/12/2002               19,737

Janine Jones                      09/12/2002               31,579

Leland J Richards                 09/12/2002               62,018

Peter Charles Slabbert            09/12/2002               33,553

Terry Keith Parsons Stead         09/12/2002               67,368

Stephen John Stone                09/12/2002               75,000

Stephen Joseph Willcox            09/12/2002              143,750

Simon David Wright                09/12/2002               33,553


The transaction took place at Manvers House, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire 
BA15 1AA.

This announcement is made pursuant to Disclosure Rule 3.1.4 following 
notifications under both section 324 Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure 
Rule 3.1.2.


Contact: Peter Fairbairn, Company Secretary; telephone [phone]    





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