Share Options

Travis Perkins PLC
25 May 2001



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     25th May, 2001



                              TRAVIS PERKINS PLC


On 25 May 2001, Travis Perkins plc ('the Company') was informed that the
Travis Perkins plc ESOP Trust ('the Trust') acquired by subscription on the
same day, at a price of £7.57p per share, a total of 28,000 ordinary shares of
10p each in the capital of the Company, all of which have been transferred to
satisfy options exercised under the Company's 1995 Executive Share Option
Scheme ('the Scheme'). As potential beneficiaries under the Scheme, each
executive director of the Company is treated as being interested in such
shares.