Director Shareholding

Evolution Group PLC
07 March 2005

Evolution Group plc
Director Share Holdings

For immediate release                                             7 March 2005

                              Evolution Group Plc

Sanne Trustee Company UK Ltd as trustee of the Evolution Employee Share
Incentive Plan Trust

The Evolution Group Plc ("Evolution" or the "Company"), the investment bank and
retail fund management group, announces that Sanne Trustee Company UK Limited
(the "Trustee") in its capacity as the trustee of the Evolution Employee Share
Incentive Plan (the "Plan") on Thursday purchased 7,045 Ordinary shares of 1p 
each at a price of 167 pence per share and that Evolution has today issued 7,045
Ordinary shares of 1p each credited as fully paid at 167 pence per share to the
Trustee as "matching shares" under the terms of the Plan. The Trustee holds the
shares as Nominee for the participants of the Plan.

The purchase and issue included the following shares in respect of certain of
its directors:

Name of     Number of        Total number of  Interest of         Percentage of
Director    Ordinary shares  Ordinary shares  director in         issued share
            (including       held by the      Ordinary shares     capital
            matching shares) Trustee for      including the       represented by
            acquired by the  director         shares held by the  director's
            Trustee for      following such   Trustee for the     Total
            director         acquisition      director ("Total    Interest
                                              Interest")
Alex Snow       148            3,987             433,089           0.17
Graeme          148            3,987              51,807           0.02
Dell
Richard         148            3,987           5,838,927           2.35
Griffiths

The above directors' interests exclude any interests in options over ordinary
shares in the Company.

In the above table Richard Griffiths' Total Interest incorporates a reduction by
60 shares to take account of an earlier administrative error.

                                      ENDS

For more information please contact:

The Evolution Group Plc (www.evolution-group.com)
Graeme Dell, Finance Director                                   020 7071 4300







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