Director Shareholding

PZ CUSSONS PLC
21 May 2004


                                  PZ CUSSONS PLC

             PZ Cussons Plc - Notification of Interests of Directors

PZ Cussons Plc (the 'Company') announces that, on 20th May 2004 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
following date purchased the following number of Ordinary Shares of 10p each in
the Company at the following price:

       Date                  Number of Ordinary Shares                 Price
    20.05.2004                       27,500                           £11.30

The ESOT is a discretionary trust under which the class of beneficiaries who may
benefit comprises all bona fida 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,
PZ Cussons 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.

Regards


B H Leigh
Company Secretary

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