Holding(s) in Company

Holding(s) in Company

Young & Co's Brewery PLC

Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C. (the “Company”)

Notification pursuant to AIM Rule 17 comprising a notification relating to the cessation of a major interest in A shares of 12.5p each in the Company’s capital (ISIN: GB00B2NDK765) pursuant to 5.8.12R(2) of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

Today, 21 May 2015, the Company received the following notification from El Oro and Exploration Company Limited (formerly registered as El Oro and Exploration Company plc):

“Pursuant to 5.1.2R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and following disposals of voting rights, El Oro and Exploration Company Limited, hereby notifies you that immediately after the time when the obligation to make this notification arose it held as shareholder 512,903 voting rights in the Company, being 1.75% of the voting rights, whereas the last notification which was made in 2007 informed you that it held 3.095% of the voting rights then in issue.

It held 512,903 A Shares indirectly as all of these A Shares were registered in the nominee name of “HSBC Marking Name Nominee (UK) Limited – Account EXPCO”.

Words or expressions used in the Disclosure and Transparency Rules have the same meaning when used in this notification, and references to “A Shares” are to ‘A’ ordinary shares of 12.5p each in the Company.”

Anthony Schroeder

Company Secretary

Thursday, 21 May 2015

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