Gosford Quarry (Australia)

Guinness Peat Group PLC 02 April 2008 Guinness Peat Group plc Guinness Peat Group plc ("GPG") announces that, following the closure today of its offer to acquire shares in Gosford Quarry Holdings Limited ("Gosford"), GPG now owns 52,025,448 shares which is 90.17% of Gosford's issued share capital. Gosford is now a subsidiary of GPG. Gosford is an Australian company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Gosford is Australia's largest producer of quality dimensional sandstone. It owns and operates quarries throughout Australia in dimension stone, sandfill and sand and gravel. It has an annual output of dimension stone of 8,000 cubic metres and in excess of 600,000 tonnes of sand and gravel, and sandstone fill. Gosford's gross assets at 30 June 2007 were A$65.8 million (£27.8 million) and its net profit for the year to that date was A$0.7 million (£0.3 million). Gosford has appointed GPG's Dr Gary Weiss and Mr Graeme Cureton to its Board. J R Russell Company Secretary Guinness Peat Group plc Tel : +44 207 484 3370 2 April 2008 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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