Director Shareholding

Brown (N.) Group PLC
19 February 2001


The company wishes to announce that it became aware on 19 February 2001 that the
number of ordinary shares of 10p each held by the N Brown Group Qualifying
Employee Share Ownership Trust ('the QUEST'), in which Mr J Martin (Chief
Executive) and Mr T J Kowalski (Finance Director) are technically beneficially
interested in has reduced from 179,357 to 98,565 by virtue of the QUEST
transferring on 15 and 16 February 2001  80,792 of such shares to various
employees of the company (not including Mr Martin or Mr Kowalski).