Directors/PDMRs' Share Interests

Directors' and PDMRs' share interests

The Company has been notified that the trustees of the Bodycote International
plc Employee Benefit Trust (`the Trust') have allocated 8,773 additional
ordinary 10 pence shares in the Company pursuant to the rules of the Short Term
Stock Bonus Plan for the benefit of the following directors and PDMRs. The
allocation of shares in the Trust takes into account the 2007 final dividend
paid on the ordinary share capital on 4 July 2008 and in respect of which the
Trust has waived dividend entitlement.

The additional and total number of shares now allocated to each director or
PDMR in the plan are shown in the table below:

Short Term                                                  Shares Balance held
Stock Bonus                                               added to        after
Plan                                                       reflect     addition
                                                          dividend             
Director/PDMR                                                                  
                                                                               
John Hubbard    Chief Executive                              1,927       67,737
                                                                               
David Landless  Finance Director                             1,276       44,811
                                                                               
Derek Sleight   Corporate Development Director                 954       33,555
                                                                               
Gerald Higgins  Testing PDMR                                   913       32,095
                                                                               
Jan Elwart      European Thermal Processing PDMR               778       27,315
                                                                               
Michael Hallas  UK and Nordic Thermal Processing PDMR          872       30,638
                                                                               
Guy Prunel      Western Europe Thermal Processing PDMR         648       22,762
                                                                               
Martyn Wilton   Americas Thermal Processing PDMR               981       34,479
                                                                               
Dan McCurdy     Asia Thermal Processing PDMR                   424       14,891

30 August 2008