Additional Listing

Cookson Group PLC
20 January 2004

20 January 2004


Cookson Group plc - Additional Listing

Application has been made to The UK Listing Authority and the London Stock
Exchange for a block listing of 2,500,000 Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each, under
the Company's US Stock Purchase Plan, to trade on the London Stock Exchange and
to be admitted to the Official List upon issuance. The shares shall rank pari
passu with the existing issued ordinary shares of the Company.


Cookson Group plc

265 Strand

London WC2R 1DB

Tel:     [phone]

Fax:     [phone]

Web:     www.cooksongroup.co.uk


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