Hargreaves Services plc ('the Company')
31 August 2011
Issue of Equity
The Company announces that at a board meeting held on 30 August 2011, it allotted 428 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') following an exercise of options by a member of the Company's Savings-Related Share Option Scheme. These options were exercised at a price of 443.0p per Ordinary Share.
Following the issue of equity the Company now has 26,957,742 Ordinary Shares in issue, each with voting rights. Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for the new Ordinary Shares, which will rank pari passu with existing Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM as soon as is practicable.
For further information, please contact:
Hargreaves Services plc 0191 373 4485
Gordon Banham, CEO
Iain Cockburn, Group Finance Director
Brewin Dolphin 0845 213 4730
Matt Davis
Iain Marlow