Director Shareholding

Inchcape PLC
17 April 2003


                 Inchcape plc - Directors' Interests in Shares


On 17 April 2003, Mourant & Co. Trustees Limited, as trustee of the Inchcape
Employee Trust (the 'Trust') transferred 729 Ordinary Shares of 150p each in the
Company to an individual exercising an option granted under the Inchcape 1999
Share Option Plan.

As potential beneficiaries under the Trust, each executive director of the
Company, being Peter Johnson, Alan Ferguson and Graeme Potts, is treated as
being interested in all shares held by the Trust.

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