Director Hldgs & Appointment

Personal Group Holdings PLC
01 July 2002



DIRECTORS PURCHASE OF SHARES


Personal Group Holdings Plc (the Company) operates an Inland Revenue approved
All Employee Share Ownership Plan (AESOP) which allows employees and directors
the opportunity to purchase shares in the Company currently held by Personal
Group Trustees Limited.

Funds to the shares are raised by monthly payroll deductions from individual's
salaries.  The first allocation period ended on 30 June 2002.  The following
directors were allocated shares as follows:
                                                                                 
                                                                                    
                                                    
                                                                       Shares     Total number of shares
                                              Price                 Allocated       held at 30 June 2002

Dr J P Barber                                   85p                       735                    259,055
Mr S M Donald                                   85p                       735                     25,995
Mr R Pease                                      85p                       735                     64,355
Mr K Rooney                                     85p                       735                     21,169



The share price for these transactions is deemed to be the lower of the
mid-market value at the start of the accumulation period i.e., 1 February 2002
and at the end of the accumulation period i.e., 30 June 2002.





APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR

The directors of Personal Group Holdings Plc are pleased to announce the
appointment of Mr Roger Michael Green (Age 59) to the board as a non-executive
director with effect from 1 July 2002.

Mr Green was appointed to the board of Bodycote International plc as Finance
Director in 1973 and remained a director of that company until his retirement in
1998.

Currently Mr Green is a non-executive director (appointed 27 April 1999) with
Worthington Group plc.

There are no further matters which require to be disclosed in accordance with
paragraph (f) of schedule two to The AIM Rules.




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