Holding(s) in Company

Numis Corporation PLC
22 December 2004

                            FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Numis Corporation Plc ('Numis')

EBT purchase

The Board of Numis announces that, on 21 December 2004, the Numis Employee Share
Trust ('the Trust') purchased 5,500 (0.03%) Numis shares at a price of 745p per
share.  Following this purchase of Numis shares the Trust holds 1,505,472 Numis
shares (7.46%).

The Numis shares referred to above are Numis' ordinary shares of 25p per share
and the total number of shares in issue is 20,172,982.


22 December 2004

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