Director Shareholding

KELLER GROUP PLC ('the Company')                        

The Company today announces the following transactions by Directors of the
Company in the Company's shares:

 1. Performance Share Scheme
   
On 8 March 2005 Keller Group plc granted awards (structured as options) to
acquire ordinary shares in the Company under the Keller Group Performance Share
Plan 2004, as follows:

Director                                             Total number of ordinary  
                                                              shares           
                                                                               
Mr J. R. Atkinson                                  47,000                      
                                                                               
Mr J. W. G. Hind                                   32,000                      
                                                                               
Mr R. M. Rubright                                  32,000                      
                                                                               
Dr W. Sondermann                                   32,000                      

No consideration was paid by any Director for the grant of an award.

The exercise price for the above awards is £1 in total (payable each time an
award is exercised). The awards will normally be exercisable for a period of
six months commencing on 8 March 2008, subject to continued employment and the
satisfaction of performance conditions, which will be measured over three
years.

Awards will be satisfied through shares purchased or subscribed for by the
trustees of the Keller Group Employee Benefit Trust or the Keller Group US
Employee Benefit Trust.

The above named Directors notified Keller Group plc of their respective
interests in these shares on 8 March 2005.

Including the number of ordinary shares over which awards were granted under
the performance share plan on 8 March 2005, the Directors held options and
share awards under all schemes established by the Company over the following
number of ordinary shares:

                     Director                        Total number of ordinary  
                                                   shares over which options or
                                                     rights have been granted  
                                                        under all schemes      
                                                                               
Mr J. R. Atkinson                                  234,500                     
                                                                               
Mr J. W. G. Hind                                   107,000                     
                                                                               
Mr R. M. Rubright                                  177,000                     
                                                                               
Dr W. Sondermann                                   117,000                     

 2. Deferred Annual Bonus ('DAB') Scheme
   
On 10 March 2005 the Trustees of the Keller Group plc Employees' Benefit Trust
awarded shares to directors of the Company as shown below. In the case of Mr
Atkinson, the Trustees sold on his behalf sufficient shares to meet his tax
liability in respect of the award and the amount shown below is after the sale
of 601 shares at 292p per share.

These shares relate to share awards under the DAB Scheme which vested in March
2003 and which, having been retained for a two-year period, were eligible for
matching at the rate of one share for every five shares retained.

Director                                             Total number of ordinary  
                                                              shares           
                                                                               
Mr J. R. Atkinson                                  880                         
                                                                               
Dr W. Sondermann                                   1,695                       

The DAB Scheme was a bonus-related long-term incentive scheme, which the
Company operated for the last time in respect of the 1998 annual bonus. There
will be no further awards under the DAB Scheme.

The above named Directors notified Keller Group plc of their respective
interests in these shares on 10 March 2005. Following these awards, their
interests in the ordinary shares of the Company are as follows:

Director                                             Total number of ordinary  
                                                              shares           
                                                                               
Mr J. R. Atkinson                                  44,329                      
                                                                               
Dr W. Sondermann                                   22,230                      

J. F. Holman

Secretary