Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Portmeirion Group PLC 4 September 2000 PORTMEIRION GROUP PLC (the 'Company') Portmeirion Group PLC announces that Directors have on 1 September 2000 carried out transactions in the Company's ordinary shares of 5p as follows: Total No of Beneficial Director Transaction Shares Holding -------- ----------- ------ ---------- S C Williams-Ellis (wife of E S Cooper-Willis) Sale 25,000 1,746,200 L Bryan Purchase 25,000 123,000 The transactions were at a share price of £1.75 per share.