Director Shareholding

Burberry Group PLC
03 June 2004

The following is an extract of the announcement made by GUS plc on Wednesday, 2
June 2004:



                                    'GUS plc

                                ('THE COMPANY')

                      GRANT OF SHARE OPTIONS TO DIRECTORS



The Company has granted options in respect of its Ordinary shares of 25p to the
following directors:-


Name of director   Date of grant    Period during or date Amount paid for  Number of shares    Exercise price
                                    on which exercisable

John Peace         01.06.2004       01.06.2007 to                 Nil             93,919            £8.092
                                    31.05.2014

David Tyler        01.06.2004       01.06.2007 to                 Nil             58,082            £8.092
                                    31.05.2014



Following this notification, options are held by directors over 1,864,746
Ordinary shares of 25p in the Company.



                AWARDS UNDER THE GUS PLC PERFORMANCE SHARE PLAN



The Company also made awards on 1 June 2004 to the above directors under the
terms of The GUS plc Performance Share Plan by reference to a price of £8.092p
per share. The awards are subject to performance conditions and the maximum
numbers of shares which could vest in the case of each of these directors in
respect of this award are as follows:-

Name of director                           Maximum number of shares

John Peace                                     93,919
David Tyler                                    58,082



Following this notification, awards are held by directors under the terms of The
GUS plc Performance Share Plan in respect of 972,933 Ordinary shares of 25p in
the Company.'



Accordingly, Burberry Group plc ('Burberry') wishes to announce changes in the
interests of two of its directors namely, John Peace and David Tyler, in the
Ordinary shares, and the options to acquire such shares, of the GUS group, the
majority shareholder of Burberry.

Burberry was notified by GUS plc of the changes in the above interests on 2 June
2004.








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