Director Shareholding

Kier Group PLC
2 October 2000


Kier Group plc (the Company)

On 29 September 2000 Kier Group 1999 Employee Benefit Trust acquired through
its Trustee the Monument Trust Company Limited 200,000 Ordinary Shares of 1p
each in the Company (the 'shares') at a price of 267p per share for the
purposes of the Kier Group 1999 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the 'L-TIP').

The following directors of the Company, being potential beneficiaries under
the L-TIP, are therefore interested in the shares:

Mr C R W Busby
Mr D V Brand
Mr J Dodds
Mr D Homer
Mr M P W Scarth

Notified by H L Thompson:  2 October 2000