Share Options, etc

Ingenta PLC
12 July 2000



ingenta plc - Exercise of share options and allotment of
new shares

ingenta  plc  announces the allotment of 42,775  ordinary
shares of 5 pence each pursuant to the exercise of  share
options  under  the terms of the Inland Revenue  Approved
All Employee Share Option Scheme.

Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares  to
be  admitted  to  trading  on the Alternative  Investment
Market  of  the  London  Stock Exchange  ('AIM').  It  is
expected  that Admission will become effective  and  that
dealings  in  the  New Ordinary Shares will  commence  on
Monday 17 July 2000.