Grant of Share Options

Guinness Peat Group PLC 25 October 2005 GUINNESS PEAT GROUP PLC Guinness Peat Group plc ("GPG") announces the grant of options on 24 October 2005 in accordance with its 2002 Executive Share Option Scheme over the ordinary 5p shares of GPG ("GPG Shares") at an exercise price of 81.0 pence and exercisable between 24 October 2008 and 24 October 2015 as follows: Sir Ron Brierley 250,000 Options Graeme Cureton 1,250,000 Options Tony Gibbs 1,250,000 Options Blake Nixon 1,250,000 Options Gary Weiss 1,250,000 Options Following this grant these directors will hold options over GPG Shares as follows: Aggregate No of Exercise prices between Exercisable between dates Options (pence) Sir Ron Brierley 2,579,703 27.1 - 81.0 08/05/1999-24/10/2015 Graeme Cureton 10,766,950 26.2 - 81.0 11/04/1999-24/10/2015 Tony Gibbs 10,909,319 27.1 - 81.0 08/05/1999-24/10/2015 Blake Nixon 9,712,283 27.1 - 81.0 08/05/1999-24/10/2015 Gary Weiss 10,885,057 27.1 - 81.0 08/05/1999-24/10/2015 These directors currently hold the following interests in GPG Shares: Sir Ron Brierley 34,211,663 Graeme Cureton 1,012,294 Tony Gibbs 2,737.209 Blake Nixon 7,245,156 Gary Weiss 10,232,045 Contact: Alan King Guinness Peat Group plc Tel: 020 7484 3370 25 October 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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