AHT Ashtead Group Plc

Ashtead Group PLC

20 June 2014

                         Director / PDMR Shareholding

Ashtead Group plc (the "Company") announces that on 19 June 2014 it made the
annual awards for 2014 to 133 senior executives under its Performance Share
Plan ("PSP").

Awards under the PSP comprise the conditional right to receive ordinary shares
of 10p each which normally vest on the third anniversary of grant subject to
continued employment and the achievement of challenging performance targets set
by the Remuneration Committee. The Company intends to utilise shares held by
the Group's Employee Share Ownership Trust to fulfil any obligations to award
shares to employees which may arise in 2017.

The following awards were made to the executive directors:

Director                  Number of shares           Percentage of issued

                          covered by the award       share capital

Geoff Drabble             111,314                    0.022

Sat Dhaiwal               27,794                     0.005

Brendan Horgan            46,683                     0.009

Suzanne Wood              45,834                     0.009

The exercise price for the above awards is GBP1 for all ordinary shares to
which the award relates. No consideration was paid for the grant of any of
these awards.

Contact:

Eric Watkins, General Counsel. Tel: 020 7726 9740