Holding(s) in Company

St. Ives PLC
20 September 2002



                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     ST IVES PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     SILCHESTER INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS LIMITED

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

     PLEASE REFER LETTER BELOW

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.

     PLEASE REFER LETTER BELOW

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.


6)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed



8)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

     ORDINARY SHARES OF 10 PENCE EACH

10)  Date of transaction

     -

11)  Date company informed

     19 SEPTEMBER 2002

12)  Total holding following this notification

     10,414,145
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

     10.09%

14)  Any additional information

     ST IVES PLC ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL AS AT 19 SEPTEMBER 2002   103,183,735

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

     PHILIP HARRIS
     COMPANY SECRETARY - 020 7928 8844 x 337

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification ...20 SEPTEMBER 2002


LETTER TO St IVES PLC - DATED 12th SEPTEMBER 2002

We act as an Investment Manager for a number of large institutional investors
and for a number of commingled funds. In acting for our Clients, we are given
full discretion over the investments, and are empowered to vote on their behalf.
However, we do not act as their Custodian, and therefore shares are not held in
our name, but in the nominee name of their Custodian Bank.

Recent purchases/sales of shares in your company by ourselves, on behalf of our
clients, have resulted in our having control over the following shares 
(also see below):

SILCHESTER:         10,414,145     Ordinary Shares 

Our records show that you have the following shares in that class 

ST IVES PLC:       102,614,000     Ordinary Shares 

As such, we exercise control over 10.15% of the shares of that class.

FROM SILCHESTER INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS LIMITED


Company:       St Ives

Share Class:   ORD

Issued Shares: 102,614,000 
                            % of Class
SII Ownership:  10,414,145     10.15     Date:   12th September 2002



SII Account     Nominee                        Share Holding   Voting Authority

GROUP           Northern Trust Co     2.62       2,690,645             YES

GTINV           Northern Trust Co     0.13         129,000             YES

LICRF           Deutsche Bank         0.13         130,000             YES

MOSER           Mellon Trust          0.43         446,000             YES

PATCH           Northern Trust Co     0.34         347,000             YES

SIEBT           Northern Trust Co     5.94       6,090,500             YES

TEXAS           Northern Trust Co     0.33         340,000             YES

TRUST           TNT                   0.23         241,000             YES

TOTAL                                           10,414,145     

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