Holding(s) in Company

Wolseley PLC
06 December 2002


6 December 2002

SCHEDULE 10

NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1) Name of company: Wolseley plc

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest:

Mr Edward C. Johnson 3rd, FMR Corp, Fidelity International Limited and its
direct and indirect subsidiaries including Fidelity Pension Management and
Fidelity Investment Services Limited.

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:

In respect of the above holder.

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

47,100                                State Street Nominees Limited
247,800                               Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
11,400                                Brown Brothers Harriman
2,541,201                             Northern Trust
156,700                               State Street & Trust
62,300                                National Cities
3,577,949                             Chase Manhattan Bank London
2,946,959                             Chase Nominees Limited
2,512,572                             Bank of New York, London
7,700                                 Credit Suisse First Boston Zurich
102,420                               HSBC
106,800                               Deutsche Bank
135,770                               Citibank
5,044,091                             HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited
54,000                                Mellon Nominees Limited
90,671                                Bank of New York, Brussels
7,700                                 National Australia Bank
4,400                                 PICG
21,100                                Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt
24,200                                Deutsche Bank AG London
544,500                               Nortrust Nominees Limited
588,102                               MSS Nominees Limited

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:

Not disclosed.

6) Percentage of issued class:

Not applicable.

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:

Nil

8) Percentage of issued class:

N/a

9) Class of security:

Ordinary shares of 25p each

10) Date of transaction:

Not disclosed.

11) Date company informed:

6 December 2002

12) Total holding following this notification:

18,835,435

13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:

3.26%

14) Any additional information:



15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Mark J. White - 0118 929 8700

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

Mark J White, Company Secretary

Date of notification:

6 December 2002

END


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