Purchase of Shares

Cater Barnard PLC
16 July 2003



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

16 July 2003


              Cater Barnard plc ('Cater Barnard' or the 'Company')

                            Director's Shareholding


The Company was informed on 15 July 2003,  that on 15 July 2003, Global
Investments Limited purchased 1,000,000 ordinary shares in the Company at 0.33
p.

The shares held by Global Investments Limited are held in its capacity as a
discretionary trustee, a trust of which Mr Stephen Dean, Chairman, is a
beneficiary. Global Investments Limited now holds 535,871,415 ordinary shares in
the Company representing 68.16 per cent of its issued share capital.


Enquiries to :

Roland Cornish at Beaumont Cornish Limited 0207 628 3396







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