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Numis Corporation PLC
02 February 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')



Exercise of options



The Board of Numis announces that, on 1 February 2005, it approved the issue and
allotment of 11,000 (0.05%) Numis shares following the exercise of options under
the Numis Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme ('the Scheme').


 Number of options over Numis shares   Subscription price   Latest exercise date
                11,000                      216.5p              15 August 2011



Share options



The Board of Numis also announces that, today, it approved the issue and
allotment of 105,200 (0.52%) Numis shares to the Numis Employee Share Trust at
an average price of 249p per share.



This follows the surrender of options over 105,200 Numis shares under the Scheme
and the grant of options over 105,200 Numis shares held by the Trust on the same
terms, as follow:


 Number of options over Numis shares   Subscription price   Latest exercise date
               60,200                        216.50p           15 August 2011
               45,000                        292.50p            28 March 2010



The new Numis shares will rank pari passu with all existing Numis shares.
Application will be made for admission of the new Numis shares to trading on the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange and dealings are
expected to commence on 8 February 2005.



The Numis shares referred to above are Numis ordinary shares of 25p per share
and the total number of shares in issue following the above are 20,339,182.





2 February 2005



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