Leeds Group PLC 07 March 2005 Leeds Group Plc ("Leeds Group" or "the Company") Substantial Shareholding, and Director's Shareholding Substantial Shareholding Leeds Group announces that the Board has been advised that, following recent additions to their shareholding in the Company, Alasdair and Richard Emslie are now the beneficial holders of 1,375,000 ordinary shares in the Company, representing 3.8 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital. Director's shareholding The Company announces that on Thursday March 2005, one of its directors, Johan Claesson, transferred 7,603,050 shares in the Company beneficially owned by him from Nordea Bank Denmark to Citiclient Nominees No 1. This was done in order to separate this beneficial holding from shares in the Company held by Nordea Bank on behalf of other clients, to enable Mr Claesson to exercise his voting rights at the forthcoming AGM of the Company. There has been no change in Mr Claesson's beneficial holding of 7,703,050 ordinary shares, representing 21.0 per cent of the issued share capital of Leeds Group. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange