RNS Number:5376U
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC
22 January 2004

Notification of Directors' Interests pursuant to Companies Act 1985 Section 324
(2) and Section 329.

Gareth Davis, Robert Dyrbus, David Cresswell, Bruce Davidson and Frank Rogerson
(together, "the Directors").

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC was today advised that the Trustees of the Company's
Employee and Executive Benefit Trust disposed of ordinary shares of 10p each in
the Company as detailed below and the Directors being potential beneficiaries
under the Trust are deemed to have disposed of a non-beneficial interest in such
shares.

Date Disposed of                       Number Disposed of
22 January 2004                        128,148

The above disposal was the result of the Trust transferring ordinary shares of
10p each in the Company to four participant Directors in the Company's Long Term
Incentive Plan (LTIP) following the exercise of nil cost options granted on 27
November 2003 upon the satisfaction of the performance conditions.

These shares were previously shown as contingent rights for each Director.

Name                             Number of options exercised and shares
                                                acquired

Mr Gareth Davis                                  61,871
Mr Robert Dyrbus                                 38,214
Mr David Cresswell                               12,131
Mr Bruce Davidson                                15,932

As a result of the above, the Employee and Executive Benefit Trust now holds a
total of 660,751 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company.

T M Williams
Assistant Company Secretary



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