Director Shareholding

Numis Corporation PLC
16 March 2004


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis' or 'the Company')


The Board of Numis announces that, on 15 March 2004, options over a total of
111,500 (0.58%) ordinary shares in Numis held by the Numis Employee Share Trust
('the Trust') were surrendered, as a part of the on-going reorganisation of the
Company's employee share option arrangements. These options had been granted to
Charles Crick, an executive director of Numis. The terms of the options were as
follows:

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

Subsequently, on 15 March 2004, the Trust disposed of 111,500 ordinary shares in
Numis at an average price of 105.90p per ordinary share to a discretionary trust
established by Charles Crick. Following the disposal the Trust holds 826,269
(4.31%) and Charles Crick holds 428,818 (2.24%) ordinary shares in Numis.


The ordinary shares referred to are Numis' ordinary shares of 25p per share and
the total number of shares in issue is 19,159,997.


16 March 2004


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