Official Listing

Melrose PLC
05 December 2005


5 December 2005

                          MELROSE PLC (the "Company")
 Admission of the Company's ordinary shares to the Official List and to trading
          on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities

Official List

The Company has today published its prospectus in connection with the proposed
listing of its ordinary shares on the Official List of the UK Listing Authority
and admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed
securities ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective
and that dealings on the London Stock Exchange's main market will commence at
8.00 a.m. on Friday 9 December 2005. The Company's ordinary shares will be
simultaneously cancelled on AIM.

Melrose is the holding company for the Dynacast group and the McKechnie group,
which together represent a diversified portfolio of manufacturing businesses
supplying, amongst others, the global aerospace, automotive, telecommunications,
industrial and consumer markets.

As previously announced, it has been the Company's intention to seek a listing
on the Official List following completion of the acquisitions of the Dynacast
group and the McKechnie group on 26 May 2005. The listing will not raise new
money for the Company and does not affect the holdings of existing shareholders
of the Company. The Company's RIC code will continue to be MRO and, on
Admission, there will remain 257,119,989 ordinary shares in issue.

Current trading and prospects

As stated in the Company's interim results announcement on 27 September 2005,
with the outstanding exception of the Aerospace companies, trading has been
somewhat slow in Europe, particularly for Dynacast, and to a lesser extent in
the USA. The Far East, however, continues to perform well. Some restructuring
has been put into place and it is likely that more will follow. The directors
remain confident of a satisfactory outcome for the year.

The Company intends to provide a trading update in January.

The prospectus is available for inspection on the Company's website at
www.melroseplc.biz. The prospectus has also been submitted to the UKLA and will
shortly be available for inspection at the UKLA's Document Viewing Facility,
which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS.

Enquiries:
M: Communications
Janakie Mallawa-Arachi                                       020 7153 1539



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