Re Directorate

Lookers PLC
11 January 2001


The Board of Lookers plc is pleased to announce the further development of the
Senior Management structure of the Group.  Mr Fred Maguire (Deputy Chairman and
CEO) will become Executive Chairman with particular responsibility for corporate
strategy, acquisitions, franchising relationships with manufacturers and
shareholder relations.  Mr Craig McKinney, our current Chairman, will take up
the position of Deputy Chairman.

Mr Ken Surgenor, who is currently Managing Director of the Group's highly
successful Charles Hurst operation in Northern Ireland, will then become Group
Managing Director.  Andrew Bruce, formerly Sales Director of Land Rover UK, has
been appointed as the new Operations Director for Charles Hurst.

All the positions take effect immediately.

This completes the motor division management team following the recently
announced appointments to the Board of Brian Schumacker and Mark Kass as
Operations Directors for the northern and southern regions of the mainland
together with the appointment of David Dyson as Mainland Motor Division 
Financial Director.

The management platform and capacity have now been established to equip the
Group to achieve future progress.