Director Shareholding

Inchcape PLC
10 April 2003


                 Inchcape plc - Directors' Interests in Shares


On 10 April 2003, Mourant and Co. Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Inchcape
Employee Trust, ('the Trust') acquired a total of 74,288 Ordinary Shares of 150p
each in Inchcape plc ('the Company') at a price of 748p per share, all of which
are to be used to satisfy Awards granted under 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
Graeme Potts


10 April 2003

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