Director/PDMR Shareholding

Wolseley PLC
03 November 2006

Wolseley plc ('the Company') announces that the following transactions over 
ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the capital of the Company have taken place 
as follows:

(a) The Wolseley Share Option Plan 2003 - 2006 Award
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    Options over ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the capital of the Company 
    have been granted to the following Executive Directors and Persons 
    Discharging Managerial Responsibilities at a price of 1201 pence per share:

    Name                No. of options    Date of grant   Total number of shares
                        granted                           over which Executive 
                                                          options held following
                                                          this notification
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    A. Barden               52,456        03.11.06          176,659
    F. N. Hord              66,161        02.11.06          452,834
    C. A. S. Hornsby       165,402        02.11.06          485,773
    R. H. Marchbank         75,117        02.11.06          312,181
    F.W. Roach              72,012        02.11.06          226,064
    S.P. Webster            94,233        03.11.06          593,394
    M. J. White             27,677        03.11.06           88,373

    These options have been granted under the Wolseley Share Option Plan 2003 
    which was approved by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 21 
    November 2003 and which requires the satisfaction of corporate performance 
    criteria before the options become capable of exercise. The options have 
    been granted without the benefit of any retesting and will, therefore, lapse
    if the performance criteria have not been met upon maturity of the awards in
    November 2009.


(b) Share disposal
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    Mr F N Hord, who is responsible for the Company's US Building Materials
    Distribution business, has today gifted a total of 2,500 ADRs representing 
    2,500 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company to 3 US-based charities.

    As a result of the above transactions, Mr Hord now holds 88,970 ordinary 
    shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company.



For further information please contact:

Mark J White
Group Company Secretary and Counsel
0118 929 8700





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