Director Shareholding

Pittards PLC
05 December 2002


Pittards plc announces that on 28 November 2002 they were notified by the
trustees of the Pittards Employee Share Ownership Trust that it had transferred
to certain directors, ordinary shares in the Company held by the scheme for the
benefit of those directors. Immediately thereafter, the beneficiaries sold some
of those ordinary shares to settle tax due as a result of the transfer. The two
directors and their vestings and disposals are noted below.


Name           Shares    Shares      Price           Current       Percentage of
              vesting      sold                 Shareholding       issued shares
                                              Beneficial and
                                              non-beneficial

John Pittard    10,086    2,219       52p          1,243,852                5.7%
John Buckley     7,574    1,654       52p             65,817                0.3%



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