Director Shareholding

Avon Rubber PLC
28 January 2005



Avon Rubber p.l.c.

Directors' Interests in Shares

As disclosed in the 2004 annual report, awards representing 90% of the maximum
possible award under the 2001/2 Performance Share Plan vested to the Executive
Directors and other senior employees of the company on 8 December 2004.

The company yesterday received valid notices to exercise all of these options
and accordingly 683, 525 shares were transferred from the Employee Share
Ownership Trust to the relevant PSP participants.

In order to facilitate the payment of tax and National Insurance liabilities the
PSP participants sold the relevant portions of their awards.  In addition, a
small number of further sales were carried out for personal reasons.  In
accordance with the new shareholding guidelines referred to in the annual report
all the Executive Directors retained at least 2/3 of their after tax awards and
they intend to build up a shareholding equivalent to 1.5 times base salary.

The table below sets out the total number of shares awarded to the Executive
directors, total disposals, the net increase in the shares owned by the relevant
directors and their total shareholdings following these transactions.


                          Total           Total         Net Increase         Total
                          Award         disposal       in shareholding    Shareholding

Steve Willcox            197,637         81,031           116,606           163,347                                   
                                         

Terry Stead              89,005          49,005            40,000            48,383
                         

Steve Stone              103,115         62,556            40,558            54,563
                                         

Lee Richards              91,067         54,033            37,034            39,643 *                                   
                            
                         

 * In addition to the above Lee Richards also sold 109 shares held by him
separately, as a consequence his total holding is now 39,534 shares.

As a result of the above transactions the holding of the Employee Share
Ownership Trust reduced from 1,350,000 shares to 666,475 shares.


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