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17 September 2014

ANNOUNCEMENT 421

Company Announcements Office

Australian Stock Exchange

Level 4 By ASX Online

20 Bridge Street Number of pages: 2

SYDNEY NSW 2000 (including this page)

Dear Sir

Commodities Group Shortfall Placement Allocated

The Company is pleased to advise that the balance of the shortfall of its recent rights issue has now been placed and appreciate the strong level of interest that was shown in taking up this shortfall.

There will be 51,938,588 new shares issued at $0.05.

The shortfall arose from the Company's Entitlement Offer which closed on Friday 27 June 2014. An Appendix 3B requesting quotation of the new fully paid ordinary shares in the Company arising from the placement of the balance of the shortfall will be lodged with ASX on allotment which is expected early next week.

Please telephone Harley Whitcombe on [phone] with any queries. Yours faithfully

Harley Whitcombe

Company Secretary

Level 11, 225 St Georges Terrace Perth WA 6000 Tel. [phone] ABN 50 009 317 846

PO Box 7312 Cloisters Square Perth WA 6850 Fax. [phone] www.co2australia.com.au

Commodities Group Limited is a corporate authorised representative ("CAR") (Number 420079) of CO2 Group Financial Services Pty Ltd (ABN 92 142 542 774 AFSL 388086). The Group's Authorised Representative numbers are: Commodities Group Limited (CAR # 420079); Carbon Banc Limited (CAR # 420080); CO2 Australia Limited (CAR # 420081).

About Commodities Group

Commodities Group Limited (ASX: COZ) is an ASX listed holding company with two separate subsidiary companies operating in non- conventional commodities: aquaculture and carbon. Seafarms Group Limited operates aquaculture operations and CO2 Australia Limited the carbon and environmental operations.

For further information refer the company's web site: www.commoditiesgroup.com.au

About Seafarms Group Limited

Seafarms - a new Australian agri-food company - operates, builds and invests in sustainable aquaculture production platforms producing high-quality seafood. Seafarms is currently the largest producer of farmed prawns - growing, processing and distributing the well-known Crystal Bay Prawns™ premium brand. The company is one of Australia's largest aquaculture enterprises and is also developing Project Sea Dragon - a large-scale, integrated, land-based prawn aquaculture project in northern Australia designed to produce high-quality,
year-round reliable volumes for export markets.

For further information refer the company's web site: www.seafarms.com.au

About CO2 Australia Limited

CO2 Australia has built a strong environmental business providing advisory and environmental management services to the mining and development sectors in Queensland and Western Australia and manages an estate of more than 26,400 hectares of planted forests and protected remnant native vegetation across Australia. CO2 Australia is the largest provider of dedicated carbon sink plantings in Australasia. It transacts across a spectrum of environmental instruments. The company currently manages landmark commercial contracts for Qantas Airways, Macquarie Bank, Woodside Energy, INPEX Browse, Origin Energy, Newmont Mining and Wannon Water.

For further information refer the company's web site: www.co2australia.com.au

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