Directorate Change

PZ CUSSONS PLC
05 May 2005


                                                                      5 May 2005

                                 PZ Cussons Plc
                                 Board Changes

PZ Cusson's Chief Executive, Nigel Green, will be retiring from the Company on
31st May, 2006. He will be succeeded by Alex Kanellis, currently Plc Regional
Director Asia. Alex Kanellis is appointed Deputy Chief Executive with immediate
effect.

By 31st May, 2006 Nigel Green will have been Chief Executive for 10 years and
completed over 31 years with PZ Cussons. He is retiring entirely at his own
request as he considers that after such a long period the time has come for a
change of Chief Executive.

Alex Kanellis, who will be 41 by 1st June 2006, was promoted to the Board on 1st
June, 2003. After a period of working both in the UK and Nigeria he has headed
up the Company's operations in Thailand and then Indonesia prior to joining the
Board.

Under Nigel Green's leadership the Company has grown substantially and
profitably. The Board appreciates the great contribution that he has made and
now fully supports his wish to take early retirement. In his successor PZ
Cussons is appointing a man who has been with the Company throughout his working
life and the Board looks forward with great confidence to the future.

For further information please contact:

PZ Cussons Plc
Graham Calder, Finance Director                                   0161 491 8000

Weber Shandwick Square Mile
Terry Garrett                                                     0207 067 0700



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