Director/PDMR Shareholding

Ashtead Group PLC

2 July 2013

                         Director / PDMR Shareholding                          

Ashtead Group plc (the "Company") announces that on 1 July 2013 it made the
annual awards for 2013 to 131 senior executives under its Performance Share
Plan ("PSP").

Awards under the PSP comprise the conditional right to receive ordinary shares
of 10p each which normally vest on the third anniversary of grant subject to
continued employment and the achievement of challenging performance targets set
by the Remuneration Committee. The Company intends to utilise shares held by
the Group's Employee Share Ownership Trust to fulfil any obligations to award
shares to employees which may arise in 2016.

The following awards were made to the executive directors:

Director                  Number of shares           Percentage of issued      
                          covered by the award       share capital             
                                                                               
Geoff Drabble             120,429                    0.023                     
                                                                               
Sat Dhaiwal               33,108                     0.006                     
                                                                               
Brendan Horgan            51,300                     0.010                     
                                                                               
Suzanne Wood              33,108                     0.009                     

The exercise price for the above awards is GBP1 for all ordinary shares to
which the award relates. No consideration was paid for the grant of any of
these awards.

The Company further announces that the awards made to its executive directors
in June 2010 under the PSP vested on 1 July 2013.

As a result of vesting each director received the following number of shares:

Geoff Drabble         694,416                                                  
                                                                               
Sat Dhaiwal           223,350                                                  
                                                                               
Brendan Horgan        171,017                                                  
                                                                               
Suzanne Wood          125,757                                                  

Geoff Drabble, Brendan Horgan and Suzanne Wood sold these shares on 1 July 2013
at 664.5p per share. Sat Dhaiwal sold sufficient shares to fund the income and
employment taxes payable on the vesting of the award. Sat Dhaiwal sold 104,975
shares on 1 July 2013 at 664.5p per share and retained 118,375 shares.

The directors' total shareholdings are:

                          Number of shares           Percentage of issued      
                                                     Share capital             
                                                                               
Geoff Drabble             1,303,297                  0.26                      
                                                                               
Sat Dhaiwal               398,375                    0.07                      
                                                                               
Brendan Horgan            493,874                    0.09                      
                                                                               
Suzanne Wood              208,805                    0.04                      


Contact:

Eric Watkins, General Counsel. Tel: [phone]