Investor Relations

RNS Number:0892A

Portmeirion Group PLC

20 March 2006







                     Portmeirion Group plc (the 'Company')



               Additional Listing & Directors/PDMR Share Dealings





Additional listing



Application has been made for 41,800 ordinary shares of 5p each ("Ordinary

Shares") (fully paid ranking pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares) to

trading on AIM. These Ordinary Shares have been issued pursuant to the exercise

of options (under the 1997 Approved Share Option Plan) over Ordinary Shares.





It is expected that admission to trading on AIM will become effective and that

dealings will commence in the 41,800 Ordinary Shares on 24 March 2006

("Admission"). Following Admission the issued share capital of the Company will

be 10,463,030.





Transaction in own shares



The Company also announces that, pursuant to its general authority granted by

shareholders of the Company on 16 May 2005 to make market purchases of its

Ordinary Shares, the Company today made on market purchases of 51,800 Ordinary

Shares at 220p per share (all of which are to be held as treasury shares),

representing 0.52 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.





Of these shares, 41,800 were purchased from the following directors and persons

discharging managerial responsibility ("PDMR") who exercised share options on 20

March 2006:



Director/PDMR                 # shares issued  % shareholding following

                         pursuant to exercise          this transaction

                                   of options

B Phillips (Finance                   5,800                      0.11%

Director)

A Ralley (Chairman)                  16,000                      0.20%

R Casey (Information                 10,000                      0.00%

Systems and Logistics

Director *)

J Teed (Creative                     10,000                      0.03%

Director *)                    --------------         -----------------

Total                                41,800





* Non Main Board management positions





The Company now holds 592,218 Ordinary Shares in treasury and the total number

of Ordinary Shares in issue less the total number of Ordinary Shares held in

treasury following the purchase and non-cancellation of such Ordinary Shares is

9,870,812 Ordinary Shares. This notification is pursuant to the amendment of the

Companies Act 1985 to allow companies to buy-back and hold certain types of

their own shares 'in treasury'.





Directors Dealings



On 17 March 2006 the Company agreed to issue a discretionary bonus to the

following Directors on the basis that they surrender the following options

issued pursuant to the 1997 Approved Company Share Option Plan:



Director                      # options surrendered  Cash bonus received

A Ralley (Chairman)                        34,000              £12,750

L Bryan (Chief Executive)                  50,000              £18,750

B Phillips (Finance Director)              24,200               £9,075

                                    ---------------       --------------

Total                                     108,200              £40,575





Enquiries:

Arthur Ralley - Chairman 01782 744721

Brett Philips - Finance Director 01782 744721





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