Barry Dale Steps Down as Chairman & Director

Creightons PLC
23 December 1999



                               
                 Creightons plc ('Creightons')
                               
                         Board Change
                               

The  board  of Creightons announces that Barry Dale has  today
stepped  down  both  as  Chairman and as  a  Director  of  the
Company.

Roger Lane-Smith, an existing Non-Executive Director, has been
appointed Non-Executive Chairman with immediate effect.