Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Brown (N.) Group PLC
13 July 2000


The Company was informed on 13 July 2000 that, as a result of the sale on 11
July 2000 of 17,992 shares of the company by the N Brown Group plc No. 2
Employee Share Ownership Trust ('the No. 2 Trust') to group employees 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 396,034
shares.

The total consideration received for the sale referred to above was £5.