Holding(s) in Company

Holding(s) in Company

Young & Co's Brewery PLC

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

Notification pursuant to AIM Rule 17 comprising a notification relating to 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 Guidance and Transparency Rules Sourcebook

Today, 12 January 2017, the Company was notified that, following an acquisition of additional voting rights on 11 January 2017 and immediately after the time when the obligation to make the notification arose:

• Octopus Investments Nominees Limited held as shareholder 1,791,682 voting rights in the Company, being 6.04% of the voting rights (whereas its last notification was in respect of 1,485,384 voting rights, being 5.01% of the voting rights then in issue); and
• all of those rights are held by Octopus Investments Nominees Limited directly as a result of 1,791,682 A Shares being registered (or about to be registered) in its name.

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

Anthony Schroeder

Company Secretary

Thursday, 12 January 2017 (17.45 GMT)

Tel: [phone]

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