Director Shareholding

Paterson Zochonis PLC
16 February 2001


PATERSON ZOCHONIS PLC - NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS

Paterson Zochonis plc (the 'Company') announces that, on 16th February 2001 it
was notified by its Executive Directors that Hill Samuel Offshore Trust Company
Limited as Trustee of the Paterson Zochonis Employee Trust (the 'ESOT'), had on
the 13th February 2001 purchased the following numbers of 'A' (non-voting)
Ordinary Shares of 10p each in the Company at the following price:

     Date          Number of 'A'           Price
                   Ordinary Shares

     13.02.2001        67,000              £3.55

The ESOT is a discretionary trust under which the class of beneficiaries who
benefit comprises all bona fide employees and former employees of the Company
and its subsidiaries including members of such employees' and former employees'
immediate families.  Accordingly the Executive Directors of the Company namely,
Paterson Zochonis plc are included in the class of beneficiaries.  As a result
the Executive Directors are deemed to have an interest in all of such shares
although none of them or members of their immediate families has been granted
entitlement to any of such shares.