RNS Number:2070I
Signet Group PLC
03 March 2003

                                  SCHEDULE 11

          NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS

    1. Name of company

    Signet Group plc

    2) Name of director

    See below

    3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
    holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
    non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
    holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18 or in
    respect of a non-beneficial interest

    See below

    4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
    number of shares held by each of them (if notified)

    See below

    5) Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected
    with the Director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s)

    See below

    6) Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions
    please indicate whether general/single co PEP and if discretionary/non
    discretionary

    See below

    7) Number of shares/amount of
    stock acquired

    See below

    8) Percentage of issued class

    N/A

    9) Number of shares/amount
    of stock disposed

    N/A

    10) Percentage of issued class

    N/A

    11) Class of security

    See below

    12) Price per share

    See below

    13) Date of transaction

    See below

    14) Date company informed

    See below

    15) Total holding following this notification

    See below

    16) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

    N/A

    If a director has been granted options by the company please complete the
    following boxes

    17) Date of grant

    -

    18) Period during which or date on which exercisable

    -

    19) Total amount paid (if any) for grant of the option

    -

    20) Description of shares or debentures involved: class, number

    -

    21) Exercise price (if fixed at time of grant) or indication that price
    is to be fixed at time of exercise

    -

    22) Total number of shares or debentures over which options held
    following this notification

    -

    23) Any additional information

    -

    24) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

    Anne Keates 0870 90 90 301

    25) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
    making this notification

    Date of Notification...3 March 2003.......













                                Signet Group plc

Notification of Interest of Directors and Connected Persons

Signet Group plc announces that, on 3 March 2003, 132,450 Ordinary Shares of
0.5p each in the Company were allotted and issued to Signet Group QUEST Limited,
as trustee of the Signet Group Qualifying Employee Share Ownership Trust ("the
QUEST"), at a subscription price of 75.5p per share pursuant to the Company's
Savings Related Share Option Scheme. W G Boyd and J McAdam, Directors of the
Company, are, in common with all other UK employees of the Group with more than
six months' service, deemed under the Companies Act 1985 and by virtue of the
trusts of the QUEST to have an interest in all of such Ordinary Shares and in
the 55,636 Ordinary Shares already held by the trustee under the QUEST, although
none of them have been granted any specific interest in such shares.




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