Director Shareholding

Inchcape PLC
15 March 2002



                  Inchcape Plc - Directors' Interests in Shares

On 15 March, 2002 Mourant and Co Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Inchcape 
Employee Trust, ('the Trust') acquired a total of 10,615 ordinary shares of 150p
each in Inchcape plc ('the Company') at a price of 693p per share, all of which 
are to be used to satisfy Awards granted under the The Inchcape Deferred Bonus
Plan.

As potential beneficiaries under the Trust, each executive director of the 
Company is treated as being interested in all of these 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


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