Director Shareholding

Wincanton PLC
27 September 2001


                                WINCANTON PLC

                                                        Registered no. 4178808

                                 ANNOUNCEMENT

OPTION RE-GRANTS

On 18 June 2001, shortly following the demerger of Wincanton plc from Uniq
plc, options were granted to directors and senior management of Wincanton over
3,503,785 Wincanton plc shares at an option price per share of 190p under the
Wincanton executive share option schemes.

For technical reasons related to the tax approved status of the approved share
option scheme, certain of the options have been surrendered and regranted on
the same terms.

Each of Peter Brown, Gerard Connell, Charles Lawrence, Graeme McFaull and
Ernest Zeida surrendered an existing option over 15,879 Wincanton plc shares
with an option price of 190p per share on 26th September 2001 and was granted
on 26th September 2001 a new, replacement option under Wincanton's approved
executive share option scheme over an identical amount of 15,879 shares with a
similar exercise period of 26th September  2004 - 26th September  2011 and
identical exercise price of 190p..