Holding in Company

TBI PLC
26 June 2001



                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

TBI 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

-

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

SEE LETTER BELOW

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

-

6)   ( - %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

-

8)   (  %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

ORDINARY 10P SHARES

10)  Date of transaction

UNKNOWN

11)  Date company informed

26.06.01

12)  Total holding following this notification

86,208,717
               
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

15.425%

14)  Any additional information

-

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

R C CLIFTON
0207 408 7300

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

                              ROGER C CLIFTON


     Date of Notification    26.06.2001




AMENDMENT LETTER TO: TBI PLC - DATED 22 JUNE 2001



AMENDMENT TO LETTER 18/06/01

TBI PLC 
10P ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 77,040,229 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)  28,088,438 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our wholly
owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited (Schroder Nominees),

(ii) 24,768,491 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) 24,183,300 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of
Schroder Nominees. The registration details are shown on the schedule below.

Another affiliated company, Schroder Hermes, is managing 568,469 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 company are therefore
interested in an overall aggregate of 86,208,717 shares, representing some
15.425% of the total number of shares in issue, namely, 558,894,921 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 SUTL,

(b) on behalf of SIMNA Inc, 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 SIMNA Inc, Schroder Hermes and ourselves.


AMENDMENT LETTER FROM: SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LTD



 
                                   TBI PLC

                            10P ORDINARY SHARES 
             
                                   SCHEDULE


REGISTRATION                                                     AMOUNT
            
BT Globenet Nominees Limited a/c: 6B                            846,300
Chase Nominees Limited                                       11,760,000
HSBC Bank International Ltd a/c: 10096301                       400,000
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 767412                                    274,000
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd a/c: 809955                806,000
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 823654                                  2,250,000
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 823666                                  1,850,000
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 831286                                  1,181,000
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 809797                                    275,000
Nortrust Nominees Limited                                     1,888,000
Nutraco Nominees Limited                                        200,000
Morgan Nominees Limited a/c GRL-Crest ID:AG01                   623,000
RBSTB Nominees Limited a/c: LAUR                                100,000
RBSTB Nominees Limited a/c: AAUKPS                              380,000
State Street Nominees Limited a/c: 5H57                       1,350,000

                                                             24,183,300