Holding in Company

RM PLC
6 February 2001




The Company received the following notification from FMR Corp on 5 February
2001:

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held:  RM plc

2. Notifiable Interest:               Ordinary Shares
      
           Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
           P.O. BOX HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL), and Fidelity     
           Pension Management Ltd. (FPM), investment managers for various non-US
           investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for  
           listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

3.     The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of

           Mr Edward C Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           A principal shareholder of Fidelity International Limited.

4.     The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
       unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from 
       reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1)(e) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.     These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
       notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for 
       the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate 
       that Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect          
       subsidiaries or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in   
       respect of the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit  
       these notifications on a joint basis.

6.     The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act,
       namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
       to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to 
       control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act
       respectively.

SCHEDULE A

SECURITY: RM plc

                                             
                                   Management     Nominee/
                      Shares Held    Company      Registered Name
(Ordinary Shares)

                        1,302,988    FISL         Clydesdale Bank (Head Office)
                                                  Nominees Ltd
                           23,500    FPM          Gracechurch Nominees
                          193,850    FPM          RBS Trust Bank
                        1,042,200    FPM          Bankers Trust
                           98,770    FPM          Citibank
                          411,010    FPM          Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                           77,450    FPM          BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                        1,369,765    FPM          Chase Nominees Ltd
                          117,420    FPM          MSS Nominees Ltd
                          145,100    FPM          State Street Nominees Ltd
                          143,600    FPM          HSBC Client Holding
                                                  Nominees (UK) Limited
                           49,130    FIL          Citibank
                          129,960    FIL          Mellon Bank
                          325,667    FIL          Bankers Trust
                        2,192,774    FIL          RBS Trust Bank
                           28,570    FIL          KAS Associate
                           34,130    FIL          RBS Edinburgh
                           39,900    FIL          MSS Nominees Ltd
                          458,240    FIL          Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                          158,700    FIL          BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                          143,000    FIL          Morgan Stanley
                          560,580    FIL          Northern Trust
                          231,010    FIL          State Street Nominees Ltd.
                          466,827    FIL          Bank of New York Europe
                          651,800    FIL          Chase Nominees Ltd
                           31,800    FIL          Chase Nominees Ltd
                                     FIL
Total Ordinary Shares  10,427,741

Current ownership          11.11%
percentage