Director/PDMR Shareholding

Headlam Group PLC
19 December 2005


For immediate release

Headlam Group plc - Exercise of share options

Headlam Group plc ('Headlam') announces that on 16 December 2005 Steve Wilson,
Group Finance Director, exercised share options over 100,000 shares granted on
10 January 2001 under the Headlam Group 1998 Unapproved Executive Share Option
Scheme at an option price of £1.28 per share. These options are normally
exercisable between 10 January 2004 and 10 January 2008.

After the exercise of the share option, all of the shares were retained.

Following this transaction, Stephen Wilson's shareholding in the ordinary shares
of 5p each in the company increased by 100,000 to 336,433 shares representing
0.39% of the issued share capital of the company.


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Released 19 December 2005



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