Additional Listing

Hill & Smith Hldgs PLC
29 January 2004

Hill & Smith Holdings plc

29 January 2004



Additional Listing



Application has been made for a block listing of 2,000,000 new ordinary shares
of 25 pence each of the Company to be admitted to the Official List of the UK
Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange. These shares will
rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares and will be issued pursuant to
the exercise of options under the following schemes:


Share Option Scheme                                     Number of Share Options

1985 Executive Share Option Scheme                         68,053
1995 Executive Share Option Scheme                        630,199
1999 Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme           1,036,391
1995 Savings Related Share Option Scheme                  265,357

TOTAL SHARE OPTIONS                                     2,000,000



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