Directorate Change

Personal Group Holdings PLC
29 April 2003


                          Personal Group Holdings Plc

The directors of Personal Group Holdings Plc announce that having reached the
age of 70, Karl-Heinz Klaeser (non-executive director) and John Swarbrick
(non-executive Chairman), will retire as directors at the AGM to be held at
1.00pm today.


Christopher Johnston will combine his long standing position as Chief Executive
with that of Executive Chairman for the following twelve months with a view to
relinquishing the role of Chief Executive in favour of Ken Rooney who has been
an executive director since 25 July 2000, in April 2004.


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