Share Options

Travis Perkins PLC
15 May 2001



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     15 May, 2001

                                TRAVIS PERKINS




On 15 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 £7.40p per share, a total of 20,000 ordinary shares of
10p each in 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.