RNS Number:7540O
MITIE Group PLC
15 August 2003


MITIE Group PLC - Directors' Interests in Shares


On 15 August 2003, the trustees of The MITIE Group PLC (the "Company") Employee
Trust (the "Trust") acquired by subscription, at a price of 134.5p per share, a
total of 52,000 ordinary shares of 2.5p each in the Company.  All of these
shares have been used to satisfy options exercised under the Company's 1991
Executive Share Option Scheme and will shortly be transferred to the individuals
who exercised their options.

As potential beneficiaries under the Trust, each executive director of the
Company is treated as being interested in all shares acquired by the Trust.

The directors of the Company who may be considered to be potential beneficiaries
of the shares detailed in this notification are:

Colin Stewart Acheson
Neville Roger Goodman
Colin Stephen Hale
William Robson
Ian Reginald Stewart
David Malcolm Telling


Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

C K Ross, Company Secretary
MITIE Group PLC
Tel:  01934 862006

Date: 15 August 2003


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