Director/PDMR Shareholding

Kier Group PLC
17 August 2007


Kier Group plc

DIRECTORS/PDMR SHARE TRANSACTIONS

Kier Group plc announces that on 17 August 2007 the Trustee of the Kier Group
All Employee Share Ownership Plan acquired ordinary shares at a price of £18.60
per share for the beneficial ownership of the following directors and persons
discharging managerial responsibility:


Mr J Dodds:                      6 shares
Mr I M Lawson:                   6 shares
Miss D E Mattar:                 6 shares
Mr R W Side:                     7 shares

Mr M D Barton:  (PDMR)           7 shares
Mr P J Staniland: (PDMR)         6 shares

Further, this scheme now contains a matched share element on the basis of one
free matched share for every two shares purchased. The following matching
shares have therefore also been allocated:

Mr J Dodds:                      3 shares
Mr I M Lawson:                   3 shares
Miss D E Mattar:                 3 shares
Mr R W Side:                     3 shares

Mr M D Barton: (PDMR)            3 shares
Mr P J Staniland: (PDMR)         3 shares

Following these transactions their holdings were:

Mr J Dodds:                 304,576 shares (0.833% of the issued share capital)
Mr I M Lawson:                6,987 shares (0.019% of the issued share capital)
Miss D E Mattar:             78,021 shares (0.213% of the issued share capital)
Mr R W Side:                172,051 shares (0.470% of the issued share capital)

Mr M D Barton: (PDMR)           798 shares (0.002% of the issued share capital)
Mr P J Staniland: (PDMR)     54,120 shares (0.148% of the issued share capital)


The total number of ordinary shares of 1p in issue as at the date of this notice
is  36,573,875 shares, with each share carrying the right to one vote. The
total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 36,573,875.  There
are no shares held in Treasury.


The above figure may be used by shareholders to determine if they are required
to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital
of the Company under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and
Transparency Rules.



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