RNS Number:4226H
Coats PLC
12 February 2003


Notification under sections 198, 204 and 205 of the Companies Act 1985

Coats plc (the "Company") announces that today, 12 February 2003, it has
received notification under section 204(5) Companies Act 1985 (the "Act") from
Chapman International Investments Limited ("Chapman"), The Millennium Trust
("Millenium") and The Apple Pie Trust ("Apple Pie"), that the agreement to which
section 204 of the Act applied has ceased to exist in relation to shares owned
by Millennium and Apple Pie, which have been transferred to Chapman.  The
notification states that the interests of Chapman in the ordinary share capital
of the Company on the date of the letter, 11 February 2003, and the identity of
the registered holder of the ordinary shares were as follows:



James Capel (Channel Islands) Nominees Limited 26,238,154


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