Tomkins Directorate

    LONDON--May 28, 2002--Tomkins PLC announces that David Snowdon, who has been a director and the Chief Operating Officer of Tomkins PLC since 1996, is to leave the Board and the Company on June 30, 2002.
    Jim Nicol, Chief Executive Officer of Tomkins PLC, commented:
    "I would like to thank David for his major contribution to the Group during the past six years and in particular for the leadership he gave to the Group's operating companies during the sixteen months prior to my appointment. We all wish him well for the future."
    As part of a resultant reorganization and other management changes, the day-to-day responsibility for the divisions within the Industrial & Automotive group has been divided between Tony Reading, an executive director of the Group since 1992, and Richard Bell, President of the Power Transmission division. They both report directly to Jim Nicol.
    Tomkins is a global engineering group of businesses with market and technical leadership positions, manufacturing value added systems and components for the automotive, industrial and construction industries.
    Tomkins shares trade in the US in ADR form (each equal to four ordinary shares) on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TKS; its ordinary shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange.