Directors Shareholdings

Evolution Group PLC
06 September 2005


                              Evolution Group Plc
                            Directors' Shareholdings

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") yesterday purchased 9,545 Ordinary shares of 1p each
at a price of 141 pence per share and that Evolution has today issued 9,545
Ordinary shares of 1p each credited as fully paid at 141 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:

                                                    Interest of director
                    Number of     Total number of     in Ordinary shares    Percentage of
                     Ordinary     Ordinary shares          including the     issued share
                       shares         held by the     shares held by the          capital
                  acquired by         Trustee for        Trustee for the      represented
                  the Trustee  director following       director ("Total    by director's
                 for director   s uch acquisition             Interest")   Total Interest             

Name of Director                                       
                                        
Alex Snow                176               5,080                 434,182             0.20
Graeme Dell              176               5,080                  52,900             0.02
Richard Griffiths        176               5,080               5,840,020             2.63


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

ENDS

For more information please contact:

The Evolution Group Plc
Graeme Dell, Finance Director             020 7071 4300



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