Director Shareholding

Avon Rubber PLC
15 March 2004

15 March 2004

Avon Rubber p.l.c. (AVON.L)

Director Shareholding.

Notification of Interests of Directors

The Avon Rubber Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'ESOT')

On 12 March 2004, Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited, informed
Avon Rubber p.l.c. that it had acquired, as trustee of the ESOT, 50,000 ordinary
Shares of £1 each in Avon Rubber p.l.c. at a cost of 225 pence per share. As
potential beneficiaries under the ESOT, each executive director of Avon Rubber
p.l.c. is treated as being interested in all shares acquired by the ESOT. The
Executive Directors of Avon Rubber p.l.c. are Steve Willcox, Terry Stead, Steve
Stone, Lee Richards and Detlev Bartels. Following the above transaction, the
ESOT holds an aggregate of 1,200,000 ordinary shares in the Company.




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