Director Shareholding

Michael Page International PLC
5 April 2004

                       Michael Page International plc 

                               5 April 2004

Notification of Director's Interests in Shares 

Release of shares under the Michael Page Restricted Share Scheme ("RSS")

On 5 April 2004, the Executive Directors of Michael Page International plc (the
"Company") became entitled, for nil cost, to the number of Michael Page
International plc ordinary shares of 1p each ("Shares") set out in the table
below, as a result of the vesting of their provisional allocations under the
RSS. Of these, the trustee of the Michael Page Employees' Benefit Trust ("EBT"),
Mourant & Co Trustees Limited, arranged for the sale of sufficient of such
Shares on behalf of the Executive Directors at 175 pence per Share on 5 April
2004 in order to reimburse the Company for their personal tax and social
security liabilities arising together with such number of additional Shares that
each Executive Director has notified to the trustee that he would like to sell.
The number of shares sold is set out below.

In addition, as the Executive Directors are beneficiaries under the terms of the
trust deed of the EBT they are deemed to have a beneficial interest in all of
the Shares held in the EBT which are not beneficially owned by any other
individual beneficiary. This deemed beneficial interest is reduced as a result
of the transfer of 22,889,978 Shares on 5 April 2004 to the participants in the
RSS.  Notification of this transfer was received today from Mourant & Co
Trustees Limited, in its capacity as trustee of the EBT.

As a result of the above, the Executive Directors' individual interests in the
ordinary share capital of the Company are as follows:


Executive Director     Shares vested on    Shares sold on   Beneficial Interest
                      5 April 2004 under    5 April 2004       in Shares on
                           the RSS*                          5 April 2004**


T Benson                  5,848,540          2,848,540           3,078,946

S Burke                   3,226,781          2,179,680           1,154,618

C-H Dumon                 3,226,781          1,868,069           1,372,997

S Ingham                  1,714,227            742,798           1,078,946
 
S Puckett                   151,256             62,015             282,472


* including Shares resulting from the lapse of awards to former participants in
the RSS which were redistributed amongst continuing participants in the RSS.

** in addition to a deemed beneficial interest in all the 5,079,329 Shares held
in the EBT which remain unallocated to any individual beneficiary.
 

Michael Page International plc                                020 7269 2205
Terry Benson                        Chief Executive 
Stephen Puckett                     Group Finance Director

Financial Dynamics  
Richard Mountain                                             020 7269 7291

5 April 2004
 



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