Share Options

Travis Perkins PLC
9 May 2001



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      9 May, 2001




                                TRAVIS PERKINS


On 8 May 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 £7.44p per share, a total of 75,000 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.