Holding in Company

St. Ives PLC
22 June 2001


                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

ST IVES PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LTD

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

PLEASE REFER TO LETTER BELOW

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

PLEASE REFER TO LETTER BELOW

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.



6)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed



8)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

ORDINARY SHARES OF 10P EACH

10)  Date of transaction



11)  Date company informed

21 JUNE 2001

12)  Total holding following this notification

12,385,647
               
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

11.87%

14)  Any additional information

ST IVES' ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL AS AT 22 JUNE 2001 IS 104,298,381

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

PHILIP HARRIS    020 7928 8844 EXT 337

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification ..22 JUNE 2001................

To St Ives Plc


ST IVES PLC
1OP ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 12,234,636 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a
discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.

Included in this figure are:-

(i)   6,407,795 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our wholly-
      owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited (Schroder     
      Nominees).

(ii)  633,338 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by another  
      wholly-owned subsidiary, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and         
      registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited, and

(iii) 5,193,503 shares held in portfolios where the shares are not registered or
      to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees or Chase Nominees       
      Limited.  The registration details are shown on the schedule below.

Another affiliated company, Schroder Hermes, is managing 151,011 shares in (a)
portfolio(s) on a passive (index tracker) basis for clients under investment
management agreements.  These shares are registered or to be registered in the
name of Chase Nominees Limited.

We believe that we and our subsidiary and affiliated companies are therefore
interested in an overall aggregate of 12,385,647 shares, representing some
11.882% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 104,239,381 shares.

This notification is made to you:-

(a)  in respect of our interest as investment managers and also by virtue of the
     fact that we are the parent company of SIMNA Limited and SUTL.

(b)  on behalf of Schroder Hermes and SUTL in relation to the interests they are
     treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and

(c)  on behalf of Schroders plc, our holding company, which is treated as having
     an  interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its     
     ownership of Schroder Hermes and ourselves.

We shall be grateful if you will kindly let us have a copy of your notification
to the Stock Exchange and if you will also confirm the total number of shares
currently in issue.

In addition please let me know whether your company or any of its subsidiaries
is either:-

(i)  authorised by any of the Financial Services Act 1986 (FSA) regulators,     
     namely IMRO, PIA or SFA, or by any regulator in the European Union outside 
     the United Kingdom, or

(ii) a listed money market institution under Section 43 FSA, or

(iii) an authorised insurance company.

From Schroders

                                 ST IVES PLC

                             10P ORDINARY SHARES

                                  SCHEDULE

REGISTRATION                                                AMOUNT
Nortrust Nominees Limited                                     510,589
Chase Nominees Limited                                        270,000
Bank of New York                                              185,000
RBSTB Nominees Ltd                                             60,000
RBSTB Nominees Ltd a/c: LAUR                                   33,300
Nutraco Nominees Ltd a/c: GWPPMPS                             100,000
Mineworker Pension Scheme (Client) Nominees 
Limited R a/c                                                 300,000
Nutraco Nominees Limited a/x: GWPPCIF                         553,800
Morgan Nominees Ltd: B a/c                                    249,000
MS Morgan Nominees Ltd: A a/c                                   8,200
Network Nominees (Six) Limited                                372,900
MSS Nominees Limited a/c: 756593                              124,795
Chase Manhattan Bank                                          242,160
MSS Nominees Limited a/c: 609803                               60,759
Royal Bank of Scotland                                          4,300
British Coal Superannuation a/c:P                             700,000
Mellon Trust                                                  150,000
State Street Nominees Limited a/c 5H57                        500,000
BT Globenet Nominees Limited a/c:6B                           650,000
HSBC Global Custody Nominees (UK) Ltd a/c: 771401              68,000
The John Elleramn Foundation Portfolio                         50,700

Total                                                       5,193,503