Director/PDMR Shareholding

Guinness Peat Group PLC
31 May 2006



                            GUINNESS PEAT GROUP PLC



Guinness Peat Group ("GPG") announces the change in directors' interests
following the issue of shares pursuant to the 2006 Scrip Dividend Alternative on
30 May 2006 as follows:

Interests in the ordinary shares of Guinness Peat Group plc


                                      Allotment                    Current Total

Sir Ron Brierley                        273,646                       33,158,963
Graeme Cureton                           13,536                        1,231,856
Tony Gibbs                               30,413                        4,053,696
Blake Nixon                              87,987                        8,006,897
Gary Weiss                                1,268                       10,906,967





Directors' interests in the shares of quoted subsidiary companies of GPG remain
as follows:


Interests in the ordinary shares of Capral Aluminium Ltd (listed on the
Australian Stock Exchange)

Gary Weiss                                                               93,255
Graeme Cureton                                                          144,000



Interests in the ordinary shares of Turners and Growers Ltd (listed on the New
Zealand Stock Exchange)


Tony Gibbs                                                               54,569





Richard Russell
Company Secretary
Guinness Peat Group plc
Tel: [phone]
31 May 2006


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