Additional Listing

Numis Corporation PLC
05 January 2004







FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')


The Board of Numis announces that, today, it approved the issue and allotment of
111,500 (0.60%) new ordinary shares in Numis to the Numis Employee Share Trust
('the Trust') at an average price of 105.90p per ordinary share.


This follows the surrender of options over 111,500 ordinary shares in Numis, by
Charles Crick (a director of Numis), under the Numis Unapproved Executive Share
Option Scheme and the grant of options over 111,500 ordinary shares in Numis
held by the Trust on the same terms, as follow:

 Number of options over      Subscription price/p      Latest exercise date
ordinary shares in Numis
                   71,500                     105.0p        7 July 2004
                   40,000                     107.5p      18 October 2006


The new ordinary shares in Numis will rank pari passu with all existing ordinary
shares. Application will be made for admission of the new ordinary shares to
trading on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange and
dealings are expected to commence on 9 January 2004.


The ordinary shares referred to are Numis' ordinary shares of 25p per share and
the total number of shares in issue following the above is 18,689,343.



5 January 2004


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