STAFFORDSHIRE TABLEWARE PENSION SCHEME

(In Wind Up)

NOTICE UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925

STAFFORDSHIRE TABLEWARE LIMITED

STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

BILTONS TABLEWARE LIMITED

FEDERATED POTTERIES, STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES LIMITED

CARTWRIGHT & EDWARDS, CATHEDRAL TABLEWARE LIMITED

COOPERS WOOD LIMITED

BILTONS HOUSEWARES LIMITED

ROYAL WINTON, COLOROLL GROUP PLC

COLOROLL TABLEWARE LIMITED

COLOROLL LIMITED

MOORFIELD COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED

Other Pension Arrangements subsequently consolidated into the Staffordshire Tableware Pension Scheme: Coloroll Ceramics Retirement Benefits Plan; Staffordshire Tableware Retirement Benefits Plan; Coloroll Ceramics Pension and Life Assurance Scheme (1988); Coloroll Ceramics Pension and Life Assurance Scheme; Staffordshire Tableware Pension and Life Assurance Scheme; Staffordshire Tableware Pension & Life Assurance Scheme (1988); Biltons Tableware Limited Pension and Life Assurance Scheme (1977); The Staffordshire Potteries Pension and Life Assurance Scheme; The Staffordshire Potteries (Holdings) Limited Pension Fund; Staffordshire Potteries (Holdings) Limited Retirement Benefits Plan (1975); Federated Potteries Retirement Benefits Scheme; Biltons Staff Pension Fund. This notice is addressed to former and current employees of Staffordshire Tableware Limited and the other Companies set out above. The Staffordshire Tableware Pension Scheme (“the Scheme”) is being wound up. If you were or are an employee of one of the above Companies, and a Member of the Scheme or one of the pension schemes listed above, and think you are still entitled to benefits under the Scheme but have not been notified of your benefits, or you are a widow, widower, child or dependant of such an employee, please contact the Trustees of The Staffordshire Tableware Pension Scheme c/o Mr S Sharif, Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited, 1 Whitehall, Whitehall Road, Leeds LS1 2HL. You should include details of your current address and any benefits you think you are entitled to and write not later than 11 June 2004. It is the Trustees’ intention to distribute the assets of the Scheme to provide benefits for its Members, beneficiaries and pensioners as soon as possible. If the Trustees are not aware of your entitlement under the Scheme before 11 June 2004 they will not be liable to pay benefits to you. If you already receive a pension from the Scheme, or you have received a statement of your benefits under the Scheme in the last 12 months, you do not need to write to the Trustees as they already have full details about your entitlements.