Director Shareholding

Travis Perkins PLC
17 December 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                                                                17 December 2003

                        TRAVIS PERKINS PLC (THE COMPANY)

                            Director's Shareholding

Mr E C Adams, a Non-Executive Director of Travis Perkins plc, today sold 750
ordinary shares in the Company. His wife, Mrs C R Adams, also today sold 750
ordinary shares in the Company. Both sales were at £12.51 per share. As a result
of these transactions, Mr Adams has a beneficial interest in 103,749 shares in
the Company representing 0.09 per cent of the issued share capital of the
Company.

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