Share Options

Travis Perkins PLC
16 May 2001


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     16 May, 2001



                                TRAVIS PERKINS

On 16 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 £7.41p per share, a total of 15,000 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.