Director Shareholding

MFI Furniture Group PLC
16 May 2003

16 MAY 2003

                    MFI FURNITURE GROUP PLC ('the Company')

                           DIRECTORS' SHAREHOLDINGS.


We hereby notify you that we were advised today that on 13 May 2003 the trustee
of the MFI UK Employee Share Trust acquired 1,423,834 MFI Furniture Group Plc
ordinary 10p shares at 1.39 pence per share. The directors of MFI Furniture
Group Plc are deemed to be interested in all of the shares held by the trustee
of the Trust as potential beneficiaries of the Trust.


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