Review of Stewardship of ESOT

Macfarlane Group PLC
10 April 2000

Macfarlane Group PLC announces that following a review of  the
arrangements  for  the  stewardship of its  existing  Employee
Share Ownership Trust ('ESOT') it has been determined that the
trustees  should  be  independent of the  trust  and  have  no
technical interest therein.

As  a  result  John Ward and John Love, Chairman  and  Finance
Director   respectively  have  today  resigned   as   trustees
following  the  appointment  of a  number  of  new  additional
trustees  to  administer the ESOT.  The ESOT  currently  holds
444,257 ordinary shares of 25p each in Macfarlane Group PLC.