Director/PDMR Shareholding

Guinness Peat Group PLC
13 April 2007





                            GUINNESS PEAT GROUP PLC





Pursuant to Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4, Guinness Peat Group plc ("
GPG") announces that Blake Nixon, a director of GPG, has inherited 30,270
ordinary shares in GPG ("Shares").

He now holds 8,837,746 Shares which is 0.77% of GPG's total voting rights.







J R Russell

Company Secretary

Tel : [phone]



13 April 2007


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