Director Shareholding

PZ CUSSONS PLC
23 September 2004

Immediate release                                             23 September 2004


                                 PZ Cussons plc

                     Notification of Interests of Directors

PZ Cussons Plc (the 'Company') announces that, on the following date it was
notified by the following Directors that they had, pursuant to and subject to
the terms and conditions of the PZ Cussons Executive Share Option Scheme, been
granted an option to acquire the following numbers of existing Ordinary Shares
of 10p each and 'A' (non-voting) Ordinary Shares of 10p each in the Company upon
the terms set out in the PZ Cussons Executive Share Option Scheme:

Director          Date of     Option     Option    Number of      Number of 'A'
                    Grant      Price      Price     Ordinary    Ordinary Shares
                     Ord.      A Ord     Shares

C N Green       22.09.04      £11.95     £11.24       13,712             13,712
A G Calder      22.09.04      £11.95     £11.24       11,211             11,211
G A Kanellis    22.09.04      £11.95     £11.24        8,193              8,193
C Nicoloulias   22.09.04      £11.95     £11.24       10,263             10,263
P J Smyth       22.09.04      £11.95     £11.24        8,538              8,538
J Spyridoulias  22.09.04      £11.95     £11.24        7,945              7,945
D M Whitewood   22.09.04      £11.95     £11.24        8,495              8,495


The Company further announces that the total number of shares subject to options
granted under the PZ Cussons Executive Share Option Scheme on 22 September is
207,438, 103,719 of these shares being Ordinary shares and 103,719 being 'A'
(non-voting) Ordinary shares.

Regards


B H Leigh
Company Secretary




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