Director Shareholding

Brown (N.) Group PLC
8 March 2001


The company wishes to announce that it became aware on 8 March 2001 that the
number of ordinary shares of 10p each held by the N Brown Group Qualifying
Employee Share Ownership Trust ('the QUEST'), in which Mr J Martin (Chief
Executive) and Mr T J Kowalski (Finance Director) are technically beneficially
interested in has reduced from 98,565 to 87,721 by virtue of the QUEST
transferring on 8 March 2001 10,844 of such shares to various employees of the
company (not including Mr Martin or Mr Kowalski).