William Sinclair Holdings plc : Exercise of options

18 February 2014

WILLIAM SINCLAIR HOLDINGS PLC

("William Sinclair", the "Company" or the "Group") Exercise of Options
William Sinclair, one of the UK's leading suppliers of growing media, announces that it has today issued 215,374 new Ordinary Shares of 25 pence in the capital of the Company ("Shares") (the "New Shares") in satisfaction of director and employee share options. Application has been made for the New Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to take effect on 20 February 2014.
As a result of the exercise of share options Mr Peter Williams, Finance Director of the Company, has been issued 112,239 Shares for nil consideration and is interested in 262,239 Shares, representing approximately 1.5 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company.
Following issue of the New Shares, the Company has a total of 17,274,420 Shares in issue. The Company holds zero shares in treasury. Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights is 17,274,420, which figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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