Director Shareholding

Avon Rubber PLC
25 March 2004


25 March 2004

Avon Rubber p.l.c. (AVON.L)

Director Shareholding.



Notification of Interests of Directors

The Avon Rubber Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'ESOT')

On 25 March 2004, Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited, informed
Avon Rubber p.l.c. that it had acquired, as trustee of the ESOT, 150,000
ordinary Shares of £1 each in Avon Rubber p.l.c. at a cost of 222 pence per
share. As potential beneficiaries under the ESOT, each executive director of
Avon Rubber p.l.c. is treated as being interested in all shares acquired by the
ESOT. The Executive Directors of Avon Rubber p.l.c. are Steve Willcox, Terry
Stead, Steve Stone, Lee Richards and Detlev Bartels. Following the above
transaction, the ESOT holds an aggregate of 1,350,000 ordinary shares in the
Company.




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