AGM Statement

Numis Corporation PLC
29 January 2008



EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE


                      Tuesday 29 January 2008 at 11.00 am


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')


The Board of Numis announces that today, 29 January 2008, at the Annual General
Meeting Michael Spencer (Non-Executive Chairman) reported:


'It has been another successful year for the Group, despite more challenging
market conditions, with another year of record profits.........


Our talented and committed people deliver an exceptional quality of service to
Numis' clients; and, Numis' service record was recognised for the second year
running by first place in The Thompson Extel survey of institutional investors
and hedge funds investing in stocks with market capitalisations of less than £1
billion. In addition to first place overall, Numis achieved first place for
quality of research, for trade execution and for corporate access.


Reflecting our success in the Thomson Extel survey, we are also pleased to
report that our institutional client base continues to grow and that we now have
114 active corporate clients. Underpinning this growth in the continuing
improvement in our capabilities with the recruitment of new talent, including,
for instance, the recent acquisition of the Winterflood investment trust team.


Numis is set on becoming a leader in the UK investment banking and broking
market. Numis is committed to growing the business organically and is proud of
its entrepreneurial and client focused culture where all staff can participate
in the direction and profit of the firm. We are determined to encourage employee
share ownership as a means of focusing staff on long term growth and value
creation. You will also see in our AGM notice that we are proposing to enhance
existing staff compensation share schemes at this meeting; and I commend these
resolutions to you.


Looking to the future, despite the Northern Rock debacle, London continues to be
regarded as the leading international financial market and, as such, is of
growing interest to overseas companies wanting to access capital. It is also a
market of considerable interest to international investors wanting to deploy
capital. By building high quality teams focused on client service and
maintaining a strong balance sheet, Numis is positioned to benefit from these
trends, particularly through our rapidly developing New York office as well as
our increasingly international client base.


As I have said, 2007 was a record year with total revenues up 21% to £87.6
million. Profit before tax and exceptional items for the year rose by 13% to
£40.3 million. Basic earnings per share before exceptional items were up by 13%
to 28.6p, while net assets increased by 16% to £109.0 million.


Since 30 September 2007, Numis has had an encouraging start to the year
notwithstanding increasingly difficult trading conditions. In our first quarter,
total trading and investment banking revenues were down 34% on the same period
last year as a result of lowered levels of capital market activity. However,
institutional commissions were up 41% and total revenues, including results of
investing activities, are ahead of the same period last year.'

29 January 2008

END


Contacts:


Numis Corporation:

Oliver Hemsley, Chief Executive            020 7260 1256
Bill Trent, Chief Financial Officer        020 7260 1333


Brunswick:

Gill Ackers                                020 7936 5382
Carole Cable                               020 7396 7458


PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (Nominated Adviser):


Simon Boadle                               020 7583 5000 
Jon Raggett                                020 7583 5000 



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