Director Shareholding

RNS Number:8129T
Thorntons PLC
8 November 2000



Thorntons PLC ("the Company")



Pursuant to the rules of the Thorntons Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) Awards
(which allow participants to receive shares with payment of only #1 in total,
after 3 years, with the number of shares depending on the performance of the
Company) were granted to the following directors of the Company on 7 November
2000 in the amounts listed below.


                         Number of Shares  Total Held under LTIP 
                          Awarded 7.11.00   following this notification
                                               

Peter Burdon                    55,000          95,000
Helen Mary Wilcox               35,000          60,000
Martin Charles Allen            35,000          85,000
Peter William Baldwin           35,000          102,893
Andrew John Mounsey             35,000          102,893
John Gordon                     35,000          100,811
Culverhouse         




The above Directors, along with the other employees who are beneficiaries of
the employee benefit trust, established by the Company for the purposes of the
LTIP, remain interested in all the 504,610 shares held by the trust by virtue
of being members of the class of beneficiaries of the trust.