RNS Number:9927O
Murgitroyd Group PLC
22 August 2003

Murgitroyd Group PLC ('the Company')

Notifiable Interest

The Board of the Company announces that it received formal notification today
that one of its larger shareholders, Pierpaolo AME Pacitti's Liferent Trust ("
the Liferent Trust"), in which Paolo Pacitti has a beneficial interest, has
today sold 60,000 (0.72%) ordinary shares in the Company.  50,000 ordinary
shares were sold at a price of 126p per share and the remainder were sold at
127p per share. The Liferent Trust now holds 521,782 ordinary shares in the
Company representing 6.30 per cent of the issued share capital.

The ordinary shares referred to in this announcement are the issued ordinary
shares of 10p each in the Company.


Contacts:
Keith Young, Murgitroyd Group PLC, 0141 307 8400
Alasdair Robinson, Noble & Company Limited, 0131 225 9677


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