Hargreaves Services plc ('the Company')
11 February 2009
Exercise of Options
The Company announces that at a board meeting held on 26 January 2009 it allotted 2,387 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') following an exercise of options by a member of the Company's Savings-Related Share Option Scheme. These options were exercised at a price of 218p per Ordinary Share.
As a result the Company now has 26,276,160 Ordinary Shares in issue, each with voting rights.
An application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the new ordinary shares, which will rank pari passu with existing ordinary shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM as soon as is practicable.
For further information, please contact:
Hargreaves Services plc 0191 373 4485
Gordon Banham
Iain Cockburn
Brewin Dolphin Investment Banking 0845 270 8610
Andrew Kitchingman
Sean Wyndham-Quin
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