Director Shareholding

CSS Stellar PLC
29 March 2004

CSS Stellar plc

Directors' shareholdings

29 March 2004



In its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2003, CSS Stellar plc
('CSS Stellar' or 'the Company') announced that it proposed to issue new (and,
in some cases replacement) share options to certain key employees in order to
continue to motivate and incentivise those individuals.  The Company further
announced that certain Directors of the Company would be granted options over a
total of 373,500 Ordinary shares of 50p each ('ordinary shares') and would waive
their existing entitlements over 608,500 ordinary shares in the Company.



The Company can now confirm further details of the changes to the share option
arrangements of the Directors. Other than as stated below, there have been no
changes to the share options held by the Directors.



The following share options were granted as EMI options to certain Directors on
23 March 2004 under the terms of the CSS Stellar Executive Share Option Scheme
('Unapproved Scheme'):


Name                                                 Number of options
Sean Kelly                                           278,500
Kevin Rose                                           60,000


In addition, Peter Owen, a non-Executive Director of the Company, was granted
options over 35,000 shares on the same date under the terms of the CSS Stellar
Executive Share Option Scheme.



All of the above share options were granted at a price of 52.5 pence.



The following share options, which were previously issued to certain Directors,
were cancelled on 23 March 2004.


Name                 Number of options  Exercise price of   Share Option Scheme under which the options
                     cancelled          options cancelled   were held
Kevin Rose           40,000             110p                Approved
Sean Kelly           121,500            249p                Unapproved
                     12,000             249p                Approved
                     400,000            180p                Unapproved
Peter Owen           35,000             249p                Unapproved
Total                608,500




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