Director Shareholding

Kingfisher PLC
29 April 2004

                                 Kingfisher plc



                              Directors' Interests



In June 2003, following shareholder approval, Kingfisher discontinued all of its
previous long-term incentive and executive schemes in favour of a new Kingfisher
Incentive Scheme (the 'Scheme') which featured an annual performance-related
cash bonus and conditional share award.



In accordance with the shares element of the Scheme, the first conditional
awards of ordinary shares in Kingfisher plc were made to executive directors on
28 April 2004.  These awards were granted at a price of £2.885 per share and
become exercisable, subject to the rules of the plan, for a period of,
generally, 6 months commencing on 28 April 2007, provided the director has not
resigned voluntarily or been dismissed for cause.



The awards were as follows:


                                                                       Shares

Gerry Murphy                                                           221,448
Ian Cheshire                                                            86,088
Duncan Tatton Brown                                                     44,412
Bill Whiting                                                           105,805



In addition, in accordance with the rules of the Scheme, the conditional award
to Gerry Murphy may increase by between 22,144 and 88,579 shares, on a straight
line basis, depending on the total shareholder return ('TSR') performance of
Kingfisher measured against the FTSE 100 over the 3 financial years to end
January 2007.  At below median TSR performance none of these additional shares
will vest.



In accordance with the terms of his recruitment, a further conditional award of
up to 285,960 potential matching shares was made to Gerry Murphy.  Providing he
has not voluntarily resigned or been dismissed for cause these shares will
normally vest in April 2007 without payment, depending on the TSR performance of
Kingfisher measured against the FTSE 100 over the 3 year period.  At median TSR
performance 95,320, shares will vest with 285,960 vesting at upper quartile TSR
performance.  At below median TSR performance no potential matching shares will
vest.  These shares were awarded at a price of £2.885 and represent up to 3
times the number of qualifying shares in Kingfisher already purchased by him by
1 February 2004.



All of the awards have an exercise price of £1 per award.



Further details on these conditional awards were included in Kingfisher's 2004
Annual Report which will be mailed to shareholders today.



The interest of each of the directors in options over the ordinary shares of
Kingfisher plc, following the grant of these awards, is:



               Total Number of Shares over which Options are held



Gerry Murphy                                                       2,689,424*

Ian Cheshire                                                         842,150
Duncan Tatton-Brown                                                  269,376
Bill Whiting                                                       1,054,381



*This figure assumes maximum TSR performance is achieved.



The company was notified by the directors on 28 April 2004.



29 April 2004
Helen Jones
Company Secretary


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