Director Shareholding

Inchcape PLC
4 April 2001



                  Inchcape plc - Directors' Interests in Shares

On 3 April 2001, Mourant and Co Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Inchcape
Employee Trust, ('the Trust') acquired a total of 250,000 ordinary shares of
150p each in Inchcape plc ('the Company') at a price of 380p per share, all of
which are to be used to satisfy options granted under the Inchcape 1999 Share
Option Plan.

As potential beneficiaries under the Trust, each executive director of the
Company is treated as being interested in all shares acquired by the Trust.

The directors of the Company who may be considered to be potential beneficiaries
of the shares detailed in this notification are:

Peter Johnson
Alan Ferguson