Director Shareholding

Inchcape PLC
26 March 2002


                   Inchcape Plc - Directors' Interests in Shares

On 26 March, 2002, Mourant and Co Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Inchcape
Employee Trust, ('the Trust') acquired a total of 100,000 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 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
 
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