Director Shareholding

RNS Number:2723T
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC
15 December 2003

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

11 December 2003                                           12,939

The above disposal was the result of the Trust transferring ordinary shares of
10p each in the Company to a participant Director 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.  Dr Rogerson
subsequently sold ordinary shares of 10p each as detailed below in order to
satisfy the Income Tax and National Insurance liabilities arising on the
exercise of the options.

Name                           Number of options exercised and     Number of     Price per share (pounds
                                            shares                shares sold           sterling)
                                           acquired

Dr Frank Rogerson                           12,939                  5,305                 10.895

As a result of the above, the Employee and Executive Benefit Trust now holds a
total of 788,899 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company.



T M Williams
Assistant Company Secretary


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