Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Electrocomponents PLC
7 July 2000

ELECTROCOMPONENTS PLC ('Electrocomponents')

Long Term Incentive Plan (the 'Plan')

Electrocomponents announces the following:

On 7 July 2000, the Remuneration Committee recommended conditional awards of
Electrocomponents 10p ordinary shares ('Shares') be made to the following
executive directors under the Rules of the Plan in respect of the period 30 June
2000 to 30 June 2003, whereupon the executive directors will have an interest in
the Trust.

Director                 Maximum Number of Shares     Notional Share Value

R A Lawson                     67,838                      648.6p
J L Hewitt                     43,169                      648.6p

The awards include performance measures which will determine the proportion of
shares which will eventually vest for the benefit of participants, which can
vary between 0% and 100% depending upon how total shareholder return for
Electrocomponents over three years compares with the other companies ranked 76th
to 125th listed on the London Stock Exchange by reference to market
capitalisation at the beginning of the period.  In addition, if growth in
earnings per share fails to exceed the rate of inflation over the same period,
then none of the shares will be transferred to the participants.

Each of the executive directors, like any other participant is a potential
beneficiary under the terms of the Trust and therefore potentially has an
interest in the shares held.

CARMELINA CARFORA
GROUP COMPANY SECRETARY
Tel: [phone]