Director/PDMR Shareholding

Helical Bar PLC
04 December 2007

4 December 2007


                HELICAL BAR PLC ('Helical Bar 'or 'the Company')

          NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PARTIES


The Company was informed today that the following transactions had taken place:


1.         Performance Share Plan Awards


On 4 December 2007 the first shares awarded under the terms of the Helical Bar
plc Performance Share Plan 2004 were made available to directors and employees
of the Company. These shares were originally allocated on 18 August 2004 and
having met their performance criteria are available to be taken by the
award-holders.


Shares awarded to the directors and the net shares retained after payment of
associated tax liabilities are as follows:


                                                      Shares Awarded            Shares Retained
Michael Slade                                                750,000                    442,500
Michael Brown                                                375,000                    221,250
Nigel McNair Scott                                           375,000                    221,250
Gerald Kaye                                                  375,000                    221,250
Matthew Bonning-Snook                                        184,560                    108,890
Jack Pitman                                                  175,750                    103,693



2.         Helical Bar plc Employee Share Ownership Plan Trust ('ESOP')



On 4 December 2007, the Company's ESOP holding of ordinary 1p shares reduced
from 5,075,226 (5.3%) shares to 3,570,868 (3.7%) following the vesting of share
awards under the Performance Share Plan and the transfer of shares to directors'
and employees.


3.         Directors' Interests in Shares

Following these transactions the directors' interests in shares are as follows:




                                                      Shares   Share Options  Performance Share
                                                                                           Plan
                                                        Held
Michael Slade                            13,129,771 (13.72%)       1,740,000          1,098,269
Michael Brown                              1,131,999 (1.18%)         535,985            692,449
Nigel McNair Scott                         2,237,932 (2.34%)         761,665            694,215
Gerald Kaye                                1,202,794 (1.26%)         680,990            661,264
Matthew Bonning-Snook                        123,776 (0.13%)         210,000            387,928
Jack Pitman                                  150,481 (0.16%)         641,020            378,437


4.         Michael Slade, Chief Executive of Helical Bar, commented:



'The directors are confident that Helical's strategy should ensure the Company
is well positioned to perform strongly, even in more challenging markets, and
have therefore chosen to retain the shares awarded to them (net of tax), thereby
increasing the proportion of shares held by the Board by 1.2% to 18.9%.'




Contact:

T J Murphy                   020 7629 0113

Date of Notification  :      4 December 2007




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