Long Term Incentive Plan

Electrocomponents PLC
4 July 2002



ELECTROCOMPONENTS PLC (' Electrocomponents')


Long Term Incentive Plan (the ' Plan') - 1999 Awards


Electrocomponents announces the following:

In July 1999, 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 (Chief Process Officer)

On 3 July 2002, the Remuneration Committee confirmed that in accordance with the
terms of the Performance Target set for the Awards granted in July 1999, they
have recommended to the Trustee that:

42,727 of the original Award of 75,356 Electrocomponents Shares should be
transferred to Mr. Lawson

28,869 of the original Award of 50,916 Electrocomponents Shares should be
transferred to Mr. Hewitt

17,321 of the original Award of 30,549 Electrocomponents Shares should be
transferred to Mr. Mason

20,208 of the original Award of 35,641 Electrocomponents Shares should be
transferred to Mr. Butler

The transfers to be made for nil consideration and subject to the additional
condition that the participants may not, in normal circumstances sell the shares
before 30 June 2005.

The Trustees accepted the recommendation on 4 July 2002.

Following these transactions, Mr Lawson has an interest in 381,174 Shares, Mr
Hewitt has an interest in 68,649 Shares, Mr Mason has an interest in 36,136
Shares and Mr Butler has an interest in 37,136 Shares, together representing
less than 0.1% 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
3 July 2002, there were 417,542 shares in the Trust.


CARMELINA CARFORA
GROUP COMPANY SECRETARY
(Tel: [phone])

4 July 2002



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