Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 4880T

Guinness Peat Group PLC

05 June 2009

2009 CAPITALISATION ISSUE and TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Guinness Peat Group plc ("GPG") announces that at 5 p.m. on Friday 5 June 2009 it allotted 145,435,546 Ordinary shares of 5p each ("Shares") in respect of its 2009 Capitalisation Issue. These will be issued on Monday 8 June 2009 to its shareholders on the UK and New Zealand share registers and on Tuesday 9 June 2009 on the Australian register. Of this number, 23,519,996, Shares will initially be registered on the Australian register in the form of CDIs.

Following the allotment in respect of the 2009 Capitalisation Issue, and pursuant to Rule 5.6.1 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, GPG advises that the total number of its ordinary shares of 5p each in issue as at the date of this notice is 1,599,932,104.

GPG does not hold any shares in treasury.

The total number of voting rights in GPG is therefore 1,599,932,104. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, GPG.