Director Shareholding

Brown (N.) Group PLC
18 January 2001

The Company was informed on 17 January 2001 that, as a result of the sale on 16
January 2001 of 30,038 shares of the company by the N Brown Group plc No 2
Employee Share Ownership Trust ('the No 2 Trust') to a group employee on the
exercise of long term incentive share plan awards, the number of shares held by
the No 2 Trust, in which Mr Jim Martin (Chief Executive) and Mr Tim Kowalski
(Finance Director) together with other employees within the group, are
technically interested as potential beneficiaries, has reduced to 315,794
shares.

The total consideration received for the sale referred to above was £2.