Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Portmeirion Group PLC
4 September 2000


      PORTMEIRION GROUP PLC (the 'Company')
                               

Portmeirion Group PLC announces that Directors have on  1
September  2000 carried out transactions in the Company's
ordinary shares of 5p as follows:

                                                            Total
                                              No of    Beneficial
Director                     Transaction     Shares       Holding
--------                     -----------     ------    ----------

S C Williams-Ellis
(wife of E S Cooper-Willis)  Sale            25,000     1,746,200

L Bryan                      Purchase        25,000       123,000


The transactions were at a share price of £1.75 per share.