Director/PDMR Shareholding

Electrocomponents PLC
17 July 2006



ELECTROCOMPONENTS PLC ('the Company')

Dealings by Directors/PDMRs

The Company has been informed that the following Directors, Mr I Mason, Chief
Executive Officer and Mr S Boddie, Group Finance Director, have today each
acquired 25,000 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company.

The shares were acquired at a price of 226.4543p.

Mr Mason now holds 62,349 shares in the Company, and Mr Boddie now holds 25,000
shares in the Company, which together represent less than 0.1% of the issued
share capital.



CARMELINA CARFORA
Group Company Secretary
17th July 2006




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