Director/PDMR Shareholding

Marshalls PLC
30 March 2006


NOTIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS OF DIRECTORS, PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL
RESPONSIBILITY OR CONNECTED PERSONS





Acquisition of shares by the Marshalls Employee Benefit Trust.


On 27 March 2006 Marshalls plc (the 'Company') was notified that on that date
Marshalls EBT Limited, the trustee of the Marshalls Employee Benefit Trust,
purchased 32,600 ordinary shares of 25 pence each in the Company at a price of
351.75 pence per share from the Marshalls plc 1998 Employee Share Trust on
behalf of Directors and senior executives who will participate in the Marshalls
plc 2005 Long Term Incentive Plan (the LTIP).


The Directors of Marshalls EBT Limited are David Graham Holden and Ian David
Burrell who are Directors of the Company.


David Graham Holden, Ian David Burrell and David Neil Sarti as Directors and
Elizabeth Blease, Chris Harrop, Kevin Hull and Mike Wignall as PDMRs are amongst
the potential beneficiaries of the Trust and are regarded for Companies Act
purposes as being interested in all the Marshalls plc ordinary shares held by
the Trust, although the shares held by the Trust are also held for the benefit
of other employees of the Company.  Despite the technical interest in the
shares, the Directors and PDMRs will only be entitled to receive that number of
shares to which they would be entitled on exercise of an award or option which
has been granted to them.







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