Director/PDMR Shareholding

Electrocomponents PLC
01 February 2006

                 Electrocomponents Plc - Executive Incentive Plan Award

Electrocomponents Plc (the 'Company') announces that the following one-off
conditional award of ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company ('Shares') was
made to the Executive Directors of the Company following the approval of the
Executive Incentive Plan by shareholders at today's Extraordinary General
Meeting:


Ian Mason (Chief Executive)       800,000  Shares

Simon Boddie (Finance Director)   400,000  Shares



No consideration is payable for the award.



The award will vest in full if the Profit Before Tax in the 2008/09 financial
year is £155m or above.  20% of the award will vest if PBT is £130m, and the
award will vest on a straight line pro-rata basis inbetween these levels.



In addition, for any of the award to vest, the Company's Return on Capital
Employed must be at least 25% in the 2008/09 financial year.



Details of the proposed awards and the performance targets were set out in the
shareholder circular accompanying the Notice of Meeting sent to shareholders on
16 January 2006.



The Company has been notified of this transaction in accordance with s324 of the
Companies Act 1985 and the FSA Disclosure Rules 3.1.2 R.







Carmelina Carfora
Group Company Secretary



1 February 2006




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