Director Shareholding

Travis Perkins PLC
18 January 2002


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                    18 January 2002



                      TRAVIS PERKINS PLC (the 'Company')

                            Directors Shareholding


The Company was today informed that Travis Perkins Quest Trustees Limited, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as trustee of the Travis Perkins
Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'QUEST') had on 18 January 2002
transferred 3,554 ordinary shares in the Company to employees in satisfaction
of the exercise of options under the Company's savings related share option
scheme. The QUEST now holds 130,944 ordinary shares in the Company. As
potential beneficiaries under the QUEST, each executive director of the
Company is treated as being interested in all of the shares held by the QUEST.
The directors of the Company who may be considered to be potential
beneficiaries of the shares in this notification are:


F J McKay

P N Hampden Smith

J P Carter