Holding in Company

DCC PLC
23 August 2002



The following is the text of a letter received from Merrill Lynch Investment
Managers Limited on 22 August 2002.

'20 August, 2002

The Company Secretary
DCC plc
DCC House
Brewery Road
Stillorgan
Dublin
Ireland


Dear Sir,

                      Irish Companies act 1990 ss 67-89                       


We are advised that for the purposes of the above provisions neither Merrill
Lynch Investment Managers Limited nor any of its affiliates in the Merrill
Lynch Investment Managers Limited, has a notifiable interest in the relevant
share capital of your company as of 19th August, 2002.


                              Yours faithfully,                               
                for MERRILL LYNCH INVESTMENT MANAGERS LIMITED'                



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