Chloride Group PLC - Directors' Shareholdings

RNS No 6099a
CHLORIDE GROUP PLC
29th June 1998


Chloride Group PLC ("the Company") announces that, as a
result of the exercise on 25 June 1998 of share options by
an option holder who is not a director of the Company, the
number of Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the Company
("Shares") held by the Chloride Group Employee Benefit
Trust ("the Trust"), was reduced on 29 June 1998  by 30,000
Shares.

The Trust exists for the purpose of transferring such
Shares to option holders on the exercise of options granted
under certain of the Company's share option schemes ("the
Schemes"). Following the reduction the Trust holds
7,701,920 Shares, representing 3.2% of the Company's issued
share capital.

Each of Mr K H Hodgkinson, Mr N W Warner and Mr D J Wright,
being Executive Directors of the Company, is, for Companies
Act purposes, regarded as having an interest in the
7,701,920 Shares held by the Trust. Despite the technical
interest in all the Shares held by the Trust, an Executive
Director will only be able to receive from the Trust that
number of Shares to which he is entitled on exercise of an
option granted to him under the terms of the Schemes.

                             
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