Director Shareholding

Travis Perkins PLC
7 June 2001


TO: CITY EDITORS      7th June, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


                             DIRECTORS INTERESTS

On 7 June 2001, Travis Perkins plc ('the Company') was informed that the
Travis Perkins plc ESOP Trust ('the Trust') acquired by subscription on the
same day, at a price of £7.90p per share, a total of 60,000 ordinary shares of
10p each in the capital of the Company, all of which have been transferred to
satisfy options exercised under the Company's 1995 Executive Share Option
Scheme ('the Scheme'). As potential beneficiaries under the Scheme, each
executive director of the Company is treated as being interested in such
shares.