Holding(s) in Company

TBI PLC
14 May 2004


                           SCHEDULE 10
 
             NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

TBI PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

JOHCM ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS LLP
NORTH ATLANTIC VALUE LLP
NORTH ATLANTIC SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
ORYX INTERNATIONAL GROWTH FUND LIMITED

SHAREHOLDERS ARE PARTY TO AN AGREEMENT TO WHICH SECTION 204 OF THE 
COMPANIES ACT APPLIED


3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

NOTIFICATION INDICATES THAT IT IS IN RESPECT
OF SHAREHOLDERS IN BOX 2

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

SEE LETTER BELOW FROM JO HAMBRO CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

20,847,867

6)   Percentage of issued Class

3.73%

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

NONE

8)   Percentage of issued Class


9)   Class of security

ORDINARY 10 PENCE SHARES


10)  Date of transaction

UNKNOWN

11)  Date company informed

14 MAY 2004

12)  Total holding following this notification

20,847,867
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

3.73%

14)  Any additional information

SEE LETTER BELOW FROM JO HAMBRO CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

ROGER CLIFTON
0207 408 7300

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification .....14 MAY 2004 ...................


Fax to   TBI Plc


I attach concert party notifications pursuant to Section 204 Companies Act 1985 
relating to North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC, North 
Atlantic Value LLP and JOHCM Alternative Investments LLP. The notification from 
Oryx International Growth Fund Limited will be sent to you from Oryx in Guernsey 
separately by fax later today. In the meantime, we can advises that Oryx is 
interested in 2,000,000 ordinary shares being 0.36% of your share capital.


Pursuant to Section 198 of the Companies Act 1985 (the 'Act') we hereby notify 
you that JOHCM Alternative Investments LLP C'AI'), Ground Floor, Ryder Court, 
14 Ryder Street, London SWIY 6QB is a party to an agreement to which section 204 
of the Act applies (the 'Agreement'). The other parties to this agreement are;-

North Atlantic Value LLP ('NAV'), Ground Floor, Ryder Court, 14 Ryder Street, 
London SWIY 6QB; and

North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC ('NASCIT') of Ground Floor, 
Ryder Court, 14 Ryder Street, London SWIY 608. and

Oryx International Growth Fund Limited ('ORYX'), PO Box 208, Bermuda House, 
St Julian's Avenue, St Peter Port, Guernsey CI.

As at 14 May 2004, AI was interested for the purposes of the Act in 2,757,867 
ordinary shares in the relevant share capital, as defined in section 198(2) of 
the Act of TBI Plc (the 'Relevant Shares'), which represents 0.49% of that Class 
of capital based on an issued share capital of 558,895,000 ordinary shares.

20,847,867 of the Relevant Shares are shares in which Al will be interested by 
virtue of sections 204 and 205 of the Act.

The Relevant Shares are held or will held in the following names:

Nutraco Nominees Limited                              1,110,000
Bank of New York Nominees Limited                     5,680,000 
HSBC Global Custody London Limited                    2,000,000 
Goldman Sachs International TNA                       5,000,000 
Goldman Sachs International THO                       3,700,000 
Goldman Sachs International THT                         600,000 
Goldman Sachs International TEU                       2,757,867

Total                                  20,847,867 shares = 3.73%

From J 0 Hambro Capital Management Limited as the
Designated Member of JOHCM Alternative Investments 1LP

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