Listing of New Shares

Smiths Group PLC
18 June 2007

Listing of New Ordinary Shares and B Shares and Application for Block Listings



The Board of Smiths Group plc is pleased to announce that the Return of Cash to
Shareholders is now being implemented and it is expected that New Ordinary
Shares and B Shares in Smiths Group plc will be admitted to the Official List
maintained by the Financial Services Authority and will commence trading at 8.00
a.m. today. Further details of the Return of Cash are contained in the circular
to Shareholders dated 16 May 2007 (the 'Circular').


On admission, a total of 385,047,430 New Ordinary Shares of 37.5 pence each and
577,571,145 B Shares of 1 penny each will be in issue.


In addition, application has been made to the Financial Services Authority and
the London Stock Exchange for block listings totalling 1,308,646 New Ordinary
Shares of 37.5 pence each to trade on the London Stock Exchange and to be
admitted to the Official List upon issuance.


The block listings consist of 41,745 shares to be issued under the Smiths Group
Sharesave Scheme, 821,111 under the Smiths Industries 1995 Executive Share
Option Scheme, 133,279 under the TI Group 1990 Executive Share Option Scheme,
82,806 under the TI Group 1999 Executive Share Option Scheme and 229,705 shares
to be issued under the TI Group 1994 Savings Related Share Option Scheme.


Terms defined in the Circular have the same meaning when used in this
announcement.



Enquiries:


Smiths Group                                         020 8458 3232
Investors     Russell Plumley
Media         Chris Fox

JPMorgan Cazenove                                    020 7588 2828
Edmund Byers
Matthew Lawrence

Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited            020 7888 8888
James Leigh-Pemberton
Tristan Lovegrove



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