Directors' Dealings

WPP Group PLC
11 January 2000


WPP GROUP PLC ('WPP')

WPP announces that awards have now been made under the Leadership Equity
Acquisition Plan ('LEAP') approved by shareowners on 2 September 1999.

Recipients of the awards include Brian Brooks, Paul Richardson, Eric Salama
and Martin Sorrell, who are directors of the Company.  Their current interests
in WPP shares, before taking account of any matching shares to which they may
become entitled to under LEAP, are as follows:-

                           Number of       % of Issued        Shares
                              shares     share capital  committed to
                                                               LEAP
Brian Brooks               346,518         .045%             54,520
Paul Richardson            331,176         .043%             59,806
Eric Salama                409,177         .053%             54,529
Martin Sorrell          13,293,414        1.716%          1,073,816
Total                   14,380,285        1.857%          1,242,669

All participants have committed themselves to holding a significant number of
WPP ordinary shares until September 2004 and, in the case of directors of the
Company and their family interests, they have agreed to hold 1,242,669 shares
in total for this period, as indicated in the above table.  Each participant
may earn matching shares at the end of a five year period, depending on
meeting performance targets based on total shareholder return.

In addition Martin Sorrell and his family interests have agreed, subject to
certain conditions, to retain 4,691,392 shares under the Capital Investment
Plan, rights to 1,754,520 shares under the Notional Share Award Plan and
2,148,581 phantom options until September 2004.