Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Young & Co's Brewery PLC

Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C. (the “Company”)

Notifications pursuant to AIM Rule 17, including notification of a major interest in A shares of 12.5p each in the Company’s capital (ISIN: GB00B2NDK765) pursuant to 5.8.12R(2) of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

Today, Friday, 6 March 2015, the Company was notified by Torquil Sligo-Young, a director, that a grant of probate was issued to him and his step-mother, Helena Young, on 13 February 2015 in respect of the estate of his late father, Thomas Young.

Thomas Young was the sole registered holder of 465,152 A shares of 12.5p each and 100,323 non-voting shares of 12.5p each in the Company’s capital.

Torquil Sligo-Young and Helena Young will be applying to the Company’s registrars in due course to register themselves as the joint holders of these shares.

Torquil Sligo-Young also delivered the following written notification to the Company today, Friday, 6 March 2015:

“Pursuant to 5.1.2R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and following the issue, on 13 February 2015, of a grant of probate to me and Helena Elizabeth Maitland Young in respect of the estate of my late father, Thomas fflorance Barrow Young, I, Torquil Charles fflorance Barrow Sligo-Young, hereby notify you that immediately after the time when the obligation to make this notification arose:

A. I held (as shareholder and as the direct or indirect holder of qualifying financial instruments and financial instruments with similar economic effects) 4,340,980 voting rights in the Company, being 14.82% of the voting rights, whereas my last notification informed you that I held 3,856,930 voting rights, being 13.24% of the voting rights then in issue;

B. I held (as direct or indirect shareholder (disregarding for these purposes holdings of financial instruments)) 4,340,980 voting rights in the Company, being 14.82% of the voting rights, whereas my last notification informed you that I held 3,856,930 voting rights, being 13.24% of the voting rights then in issue;

C. I held (as a result of direct and indirect holdings of qualifying financial instruments) 0 voting rights in the Company, being 0% of the voting rights, which was the same amount notified in my last notification; and

D. I was deemed to have held (as a result of direct and indirect holdings of financial instruments having similar economic effects to (but not including) qualifying financial instruments in C. above, if any) 0 voting rights in the Company, being 0% of the voting rights, which was the same amount notified in my last notification.

Of those:

● 287,880 are held by me directly as a result of 287,880 A Shares being registered in my name;

● 465,152 are held by me directly as a result of 465,152 A Shares being soon to be registered in the joint names of Helena Elizabeth Maitland Young and me (instead of the sole name of Thomas fflorance Barrow Young);

● 371,216 are held by me directly as a result of 371,216 A Shares being soon to be registered in the joint names of Helena Elizabeth Maitland Young and me (instead of the joint names of Thomas fflorance Barrow Young, Helena Elizabeth Maitland Young and me); and

● 3,216,732 are held by me directly as a result of 3,216,732 A Shares being soon to be registered in the joint names of James Guillaume Allen Young and me (instead of the joint names of Thomas fflorance Barrow Young, James Guillaume Allen Young and me).

Words or expressions used in the Disclosure and Transparency Rules have the same meaning when used in this notification, and references to “A Shares” are to A shares of 12.5p each in the Company.”

Anthony Schroeder
Company Secretary

Friday, 6 March 2015

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