Director Shareholding

Electrocomponents PLC
07 July 2004



ELECTROCOMPONENTS PLC ('the Company')

Long Term Incentive Plan (the 'Plan') - 2001 Awards

Electrocomponents announces the following:


In July 2001, the Remuneration Committee recommended to the Trustee of the
Electrocomponents Employee Trust that conditional awards of Electrocomponents
10p ordinary shares ('Shares') be made under the Plan to Mr R. A. Lawson
(Chairman), Mr J. L. Hewitt (Deputy Chairman and Group Finance Director), Mr I.
Mason (Group Chief Executive) and Mr R. B. Butler (Group Process Officer).


On 7 July 2004, the Remuneration Committee confirmed that in accordance with the
terms of the Performance Target set for the Awards granted in July 2001, they
have recommended to the Trustee that all the original awards lapse. Following
this recommendation the Trustee has confirmed that the awards have lapsed,
thereby terminating the interest of the Directors in the shares to which the
awards related.


Mr Lawson has an interest in 403,374 Shares, Mr Hewitt has an interest in 75,382
Shares, Mr Mason has an interest in 37,349 Shares and Mr Butler has an interest
in 38,349 Shares, together representing less than 0.2% of the issued share
capital of the Company.


In addition, as the Trust is a discretionary trust, each of the directors is,
together with other employees of the Company and its subsidiaries, a beneficiary
of the Trust and therefore interested in all of the shares in the Trust. As at 7
July 2004, there were 308,417 shares in the Trust.







CARMELINA CARFORA

GROUP COMPANY SECRETARY

7 July 2004


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