Holding in Company

TBI PLC
15 August 2000

                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS

1)   NAME OF COMPANY

TBI PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

SOROS CAPITAL L.P.

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

-

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

SOROS CAPITAL            17,295,997
BANKONE TRUST COMPANY     2,443,618
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                         19,739,615


5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

-

6)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

1,495,068

8)   ( 0.2944% ) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

10p ORDINARY SHARE

10)  Date of transaction

UNKNOWN 

11)  Date company informed

12.8.00

12)  Total holding following this notification

19,739,615
               
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

3.89%

14)  Any additional information

HOLDING WAS GONE THROUGH A PERCENTAGE POINT

15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

R CLIFTON
SECRETARY
00207 408 7338   


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

     Date of Notification .......15.8.2000..



                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS

1)   NAME OF COMPANY

TBI PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT 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

-

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

SEE 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 10p SHARES

10)  Date of transaction

-

11)  Date company informed

15.8.00

12)  Total holding following this notification

61,989,945
               
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

12.205%

14)  Any additional information



15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries

R CLIFTON
SECRETARY
0207 408 7300


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

     Date of Notification .......15.8.2000..




LETTER TO:   TBI PLC

10p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 61,989,945 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a
discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.

Included in this figure are:-

(i)  14,299,484 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our
     wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited
     (Schroder Nominees),

(ii) 15,434,218 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by
     another wholly-owned subsidiary, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and
     registered or to be registered in the name of Popeshead Nominees Limited
     (Popeshead), and

(iii) 32,256,243 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of
      Schroder Nominees or Popeshead. The registration details are shown in the
      schedule below.

Another affiliated company, Schroder Hermes, is managing 568,469 shares in (a)
portfolio(s) on a passive (index tracker) basis for clients under investment
management agreements.  These shares are registered of to be registered in the
name of Chase Nominees Limited.

We believe that we and our subsidiary and affiliated company are therefore
interested in an overall aggregate of 62,558,414 shares, representing some
12.2053% of the total number of shares in issue, namely, 507,894,921 shares.


This notification is made to you:

(a) in respect of our interest as investment managers and also by virtue of the
    fact that we are the parent company of SUTL.

(b) on behalf of SUTL in relation to the interest it is treated as having under
    the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and

(c) on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as
    having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of
    its ownership of SIMNA and ourselves.


FROM:    PAUL MARTIN
         (COMPLIANCE MANAGER)
         SCHRODERS


                             TBI PLC

                       10p ORDINARY SHARES

                            SCHEDULE

REGISTRATION                                           AMOUNT

BT Globenet Nominees Limited a/c: 6B                   800,000
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd a/c: 767412       197,000
HSBC Global Custody Nominee (UK) Ltd a/c: 809955       717,000
Nortrust Nominees Limited                            1,700,000
RBSTB Nominees Limited                               7,700,000
Schroder Executor & Trustee Company Limited            500,000
State Street Nominees Limited a/c: 5H57              1,900,000
Chase Nominees Limited                              12,960,000
RBSTB Nominees Ltd a/c: ESPSBEB                      2,282,243
HSBC Bank International Ltd a/c: 10096301              400,000
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 823666                           850,000
MSS Nominees Ltd a/c: 823654                         2,250,000
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                                                    32,256,243
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