Director Shareholding

Burberry Group PLC
04 July 2003

GUS plc announced on 3 July 2003, the increase in the share interests of its
directors resulting from the purchase on 2 July 2003, by Towers Perrin Share
Plan Services (Guernsey) Limited as trustee of the GUS plc ESOP Trust (No.3), of
1,000,000 Ordinary shares of 25p each in GUS plc ('Ordinary shares'). These
shares were purchased at a price of £6.7524 per share.

John Peace, Rose Marie Bravo, Michael Metcalf, Thomas O'Neill and David Tyler
are, together with other employees of the GUS group, potential beneficiaries of
the holdings of the GUS plc ESOP Trust (No.3) and, as such, each of these
directors of Burberry Group plc ('the Company') are deemed, under section 324
Companies Act 1985, to have an interest in the Ordinary shares of GUS plc held
by that trust.

Accordingly, Burberry Group plc wishes to announce the change in the interests
of the above directors in the shares of the GUS group, the majority shareholder
of the Company.

The Company was notified of the above purchase on 3 July 2003.




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