Director/PDMR Shareholding

Speedy Hire PLC
04 July 2007


Speedy Hire PLC

4 July 2007


                Speedy Hire Plc ('Speedy Hire' or the 'Company')


    Directors and Persons Discharging Management Responsibilities ('PDMR') -
                              Interests in Shares


Speedy Hire announces the following changes to Directors' and PDMRs interests in
the Company's ordinary 5p shares ('Shares'). All percentages in this
announcement are expressed as percentages of the Company's issued share capital
of 48,215,162 shares


1.         Award Exercises and Associated Sale of Shares


Awards granted in 2004 under each of the Company's 2004 Performance Share Plan
('PSP') and the 2004 Co-Investment Plan ('CIP') (together, the 'Plans'),
following the Plans' approval by shareholders at the Company's AGM on 21 July
2004 and which vested on 28 June 2007, were exercised on 29 June 2007. The
awards were rights to acquire Shares for nil consideration, subject to the rules
of the Plans and to the applicable performance targets. Details of the awards
exercised by Executive Directors are in the table below.


The exercise of the awards was satisfied by the transfer of the relevant number
of Shares from the Company's Employee Benefits Trust ('EBT'), reducing the
number of Shares held by the EBT by 112,733 Shares (0.23% of the Company's
issued share capital) in total. The EBT now holds 521,055 Shares (1.08% of the
Company's issued share capital).


As potential beneficiaries of the EBT, all Executive Directors and PDMRs of the
Company are treated as interested in transactions by the EBT.


Individuals who exercise awards are required to discharge the corresponding tax
liabilities. The Executive Directors listed in the table below have sold Shares,
between 29 June and 2 July 2007, at an average price of £11.95 per Share as
follows:

Director  Previous            Aggregate Number of Shares  Shares Sold   Total Holding of Shares
           Holding of Shares  Acquired on Exercise of 
                              PSP and CIP Awards
S J       109,040 (0.23%)      143,072   (0.30%)         58,660 (0.12%)   193,452   (0.40%)
Corcoran

N C        90,378  (0.19%)     107,305     (0.22%)       53,996  (0.11%)  143,687   (0.30%)
O'Brien



Of the Shares sold by Neil O'Brien, 43,996 were to satisfy the tax liability
arising on the exercise of his PSP and CIP awards.


2.         2007 PSP and CIP Matching Share Awards


Awards were made yesterday under the PSP and awards of Matching Shares were also
made under the CIP. The awards are rights to acquire Shares for nil
consideration, subject to the rules of the Plans and to the applicable
performance targets.











2.1        PSP


Awards have been made on 3 July 2007 to Executive Directors as follows:

  Director        2007 PSP Share Awards         Total Subsisting PSP Awards

S J Corcoran                         26133                             100,039

N C O'Brien                          17690                              68,132

M A McGrath                          16885                              38,755


2.2        CIP


In accordance with the rules of the CIP, employees of the Company to whom
Matching Share Awards have been made under the CIP in 2007 have committed in
total bonuses of £ 1.468m to the purchase (net of tax) of 71,885 (Bonus Award)
Shares for the purposes of the Plan.


2.2.1     Bonus Shares


The Executive Directors and PDMRs have purchased (Bonus Award) Shares, all at
£11.95 per Share, as follows:


(a)            Directors

Director    Previous Holding of Shares    Shares Purchased    Total Holding of Shares

S J               193,452         (0.40%)   6,423     (0.01%)     199,875 (0.41%)
Corcoran

N C               143,687         (0.30%)   4,441     (0.01%)     148,128  (0.31%)
O'Brien

M A                14,000         (0.03%)   9,076     (0.02%)      23,076  (0.05%)
McGrath



(b)        PDMRs

  PDMR      Previous Holding of Shares    Shares Purchased    Total Holding of Shares

P J                    0             (0%)    489     (0.001%)        489  (0.001%)
Rawnsley

C                  3,284         (0.007%)  2,180     (0.005%)      5,464  (0.011%)
Veritiero

M A Knott          2,960         (0.006%)  1,347     (0.003%)      4,307  (0.009%)

G                      0             (0%)  2,204     (0.005%)      2,204  (0.005%)
Parkinson

A Carter          10,629         (0.022%)  1,959     (0.004%)     12,588  (0.026%)











The bonus funds were applied by Sanne Trust Company Limited, the trustee of the
EBT, to purchase the (Bonus Award) Shares on behalf of those individuals,
acquiring the relevant number of Shares on 2 July 2007 in the market from the
Shares sold by S J Corcoran and N C O'Brien (as referred to above) at an average
price of £11.95 per Share.


2.2.2            Matching Share Awards


(a)            Directors


Matching Share Awards under the CIP have been made on 3 July 2007 to Directors
as follows:



Director    2007 CIP Matching Share Awards    Total Subsisting CIP Matching Share Awards
S J                                  21,936                                        88,354
Corcoran

N C                                  15,168                                        58,926
O'Brien

M A                                  30,998                                        75,726
McGrath


(b)        PDMRs


Matching Share Awards under the CIP have been made on 3 July 2007 to PDMRs as
follows:

  PDMR      2007 CIP Matching Share Awards    Total Subsisting CIP Matching Share Awards
P J                                     836                                           836
Rawnsley

C                                     7,446                                        17,028
Veritiero

M A Knott                             4,600                                        14,738

G                                     7,530                                         7,530
Parkinson

A Carter                              6,692                                        15,735


Matching Share Awards made on 3 July 2007 to other senior employees of the
Company under the CIP total 117,563 Shares or 0.24% of the Company's issued
share capital.


Both awards under the PSP and Matching Share Awards under the CIP will normally
be exercisable (to the extent performance targets are met) within a 90-day
period following the announcement of the Company's results for the year ending
31 March 2010.


                                     -ends-

Enquiries:


Speedy Hire PLC

Frank Dee, Senior Independent Director

Neil O'Brien, Finance Director

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