Holding in Company

Esporta PLC
7 March 2001



                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     ESPORTA PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LTD

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

     AS ABOVE

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

     NOT DISCLOSED

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.



6)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

     NOT DISCLOSED

8)   ( NOT DISCLOSED %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

     25p ORDINARY SHARES

10)  Date of transaction

     NOT DISCLOSED

11)  Date company informed

     7 MARCH 2001

12)  Total holding following this notification

     NOT DISCLOSED
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

     NOT DISCLOSED

14)  Any additional information

     TOTAL HOLDING NOW BELOW 10% - NO LONGER NOTIFIABLE

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

     VICTORIA PENRICE - 0118 912 3505

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification ....7 MARCH 2001


LETTER TO ESPORTA PLC

25p ORDINARY SHARES

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in the above mentioned shares.  It is not notifiable interests for the
purposes of Part VI of the Companies Act 1985 (the Act) since it represents less
than 10% of the nominal value of the relevant share capital of your company,
which we understand to be 166,187,522 shares.

We shall be grateful if you will kindly confirm the total number of shares
currently in issue and, in addition, please let us know whether your company or
any of its subsidiaries is either:

(i)   authorised by any of the Financial Services Act 1986 (FSA) regulators,
      namely, IMRO, PIA or SFA, or by any regulator in the European Union
      outside the United Kingdom,
      or

(ii)  a listed money market institution under section 43 FSA, or

(iii) an authorised insurance company.

FROM SCHRODERS