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Portmeirion Group PLC
20 March 2006



                     Portmeirion Group plc (the 'Company')

               Additional Listing & Directors/PDMR Share Dealings


Additional listing

Application has been made for 41,800 ordinary shares of 5p each ('Ordinary
Shares') (fully paid ranking pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares) to
trading on AIM. These Ordinary Shares have been issued pursuant to the exercise
of options (under the 1997 Approved Share Option Plan) over Ordinary Shares.


It is expected that admission to trading on AIM will become effective and that
dealings will commence in the 41,800 Ordinary Shares on 24 March 2006
('Admission'). Following Admission the issued share capital of the Company will
be 10,463,030.


Transaction in own shares

The Company also announces that, pursuant to its general authority granted by
shareholders of the Company on 16 May 2005 to make market purchases of its
Ordinary Shares, the Company today made on market purchases of 51,800 Ordinary
Shares at 220p per share (all of which are to be held as treasury shares),
representing 0.52 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.


Of these shares, 41,800 were purchased from the following directors and persons
discharging managerial responsibility ('PDMR') who exercised share options on 20
March 2006:

Director/PDMR                 # shares issued  % shareholding following
                         pursuant to exercise          this transaction
                                   of options
B Phillips (Finance                   5,800                      0.11%
Director)
A Ralley (Chairman)                  16,000                      0.20%
R Casey (Information                 10,000                      0.00%
Systems and Logistics
Director *)
J Teed (Creative                     10,000                      0.03%
Director *)                    --------------         -----------------
Total                                41,800


* Non Main Board management positions


The Company now holds 592,218 Ordinary Shares in treasury and the total number
of Ordinary Shares in issue less the total number of Ordinary Shares held in
treasury following the purchase and non-cancellation of such Ordinary Shares is
9,870,812 Ordinary Shares. This notification is pursuant to the amendment of the
Companies Act 1985 to allow companies to buy-back and hold certain types of
their own shares 'in treasury'.


Directors Dealings

On 17 March 2006 the Company agreed to issue a discretionary bonus to the
following Directors on the basis that they surrender the following options
issued pursuant to the 1997 Approved Company Share Option Plan:

Director                      # options surrendered  Cash bonus received
A Ralley (Chairman)                        34,000              £12,750
L Bryan (Chief Executive)                  50,000              £18,750
B Phillips (Finance Director)              24,200               £9,075
                                    ---------------       --------------
Total                                     108,200              £40,575


Enquiries:
Arthur Ralley - Chairman 01782 744721
Brett Philips - Finance Director 01782 744721


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