Share Ownership Trust

Avon Rubber PLC
19 June 2007


For Immediate Release                                               19 June 2007

                  Avon Rubber p.l.c. ('Avon' or the 'Company')
                         Employee Share Ownership Trust

Further to an announcement on 13 June 2007, Avon Rubber p.l.c (the 'Company')
has been advised by Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited, in its
capacity as trustee of the Company's Employee Share Ownership Trust (the
'Trust'), that it disposed of 666,190 ordinary shares of £1 each in the Company
on 14 June 2007 and has, conditional upon a successful application for listing,
applied for the subscription of 666,191 shares in the Company.

The following directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility are
potential beneficiaries of the Trust by virtue of their participation in the
Company's Performance Share Plan 2002. As a result of these transactions there
has been a change in the number of shares they are interested in, however, the
individuals were not connected with the transactions.
T.K.P Stead
P.C. Slabbert

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Contact Information:

Avon Rubber p.l.c.                                                  01225 896831
Peter Slabbert, Finance Director

Weber Shandwick Financial                                          020 7067 0700
Richard Hews / Rachel Taylor / Hannah Marwood




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