Director Shareholding

Brown (N.) Group PLC
20 March 2002


Letter to Company Announcements Office - dated 19 March 2002


We write to inform you that as a result of a sale and a transfer on 18th March 
2002 of 17,963 shares and 126 shares respectively, to a former employee on the
exercise of options under the Company's long term incentive share plan and the
Company's deferred annual bonus scheme, the number of shares held by the No. 2
Employee Share Ownership Trust, in which Mr Jim Martin (Chief Executive) and 
Mr Tim Kowalski (Finance Director) (together with other employees), are 
technically interested as potential beneficiaries, has reduced to 134,500 
shares.

The total consideration received for the shares transacted was £6.


Letter from N Brown Group plc


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