Director/PDMR Shareholding

Smiths Group PLC
04 July 2007

4 July 2007

Smiths Group plc

Transactions in B Shares by and holdings of New Ordinary Shares of Directors and
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility ('PDMRs')

The Company has been notified that the following Directors and PDMR (and/or
persons connected with them) have disposed of the number of B Shares set out
opposite their names below for 365 pence per share pursuant to the Initial
Purchase Offer made by JP Morgan Cazenove, as principal, on 25 June 2007. The
following Directors and PDMR (and/or persons connected with them) remain
interested in the numbers of New Ordinary Shares in the Company also set out
below.  No Director or PDMR now has any interest in B shares.

                                                         Number of New Ordinary 
Name of Director/PDMR       Number of B Shares sold to    Shares held following    
                           JPMorgan Cazenove under the        the Share Capital 
                                Initial Purchase Offer            Consolidation
                                                                  
D H Brydon                                      12,000                    8,000
K O Butler-Wheelhouse                          601,098                  400,732
D J Challen                                      2,000                    1,333
S J Chambers                                     2,000                    1,333
J Langston                                     169,236                  112,824
D P Lillycrop                                  120,935                   80,623
S Phipson                                       55,039                   36,691

Further details of the Initial Purchase Offer and Share Capital Consolidation
are contained in the circular from the Company to its Shareholders dated 16 May
2007 (the 'Circular').  Terms defined in the Circular have the same meaning when
used in this announcement.


For further information:

Smiths Group plc:                020 8458 3232
Russell Plumley

JPMorgan Cazenove:            020 7588 2828
Edmund Byers
Matthew Lawrence

JPMorgan Cazenove Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United
Kingdom by the FSA, is acting for Smiths and no-one else in connection with the
Return of Cash and will not be responsible to anyone other than Smiths for
providing the protections afforded to clients of JPMorgan Cazenove Limited or
for providing advice in relation to the Return of Cash.



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