Alliance Trust PLC.Listing Rule 15.5.1(4)

5 January 2012
   
 ALLIANCE TRUST PLC - ('the Company')

Transactions in a close period Listing Rule 15.5.1(4)

The Company is satisfied that all inside information which the Company and its Directors may have in the period leading up to the announcement of its annual results has been notified to a Regulated Information Service and that the Company is thereby exempted from the provisions of the Model Code in relation to close periods for any purchases by the Company of its own securities.

Enquiries: 

Donald McPherson
Alliance Trust PLC 
Telephone: [phone]

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