Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Brown (N.) Group PLC
19 May 2000


The company was informed on 18 May 2000 that, as a result of the sale on 18 May
2000 of 16,482 shares of the company by the N Brown Group plc No. 2 Employee
Share Ownership Trust ('the No. 2 Trust') to group employees on the exercise of
long term incentive share plan awards, the number of shares held by the No. 2
Trust, in which Mr Jim Martin (Chief Executive) and Mr Tim Kowalski (Finance
Director) together with other employees within the group, are technically
interested as potential beneficiaries, has reduced to 414,904 shares.

The total consideration received for the sale referred to above was £7.