Holding(s) in Company

Young & Co's Brewery PLC Young & Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. (the "Company") 1) Notification pursuant to rule 17 of the AIM Rules On 5 October 2007 83,279 'A' ordinary shares of 50p each in the Company were released by the trustee of the Ram Brewery Trust pursuant to the Company's profit sharing scheme. The recipients were not directors of the Company. The shares referred to above were held in trust by Ram Brewery Trustees Limited. As beneficiaries under that trust as members of the Company's profit-sharing, share option and / or pension schemes, the following directors had an interest in those shares, namely Christopher Sandland, Stephen Goodyear, Torquil Sligo-Young, Peter Whitehead and Patrick Dardis. Each of these directors interests has been reduced accordingly. 2) Notification of a major interest in 'A' ordinary shares of 50p each in the capital of the Company (ISIN: GB 0009882035) pursuant to rule 17 of the AIM Rules and 5.8.12R (2) of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules. On 8 October 2007 the Company received the following notification from Ram Brewery Trustees Limited: "Pursuant to 5.1.2R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and following various releases of A Shares pursuant to the Company's profit sharing scheme on 5 October 2007, we, Ram Brewery Trustees Limited, hereby notify you that immediately after the time when the obligation to make this notification arose: A. we held (as shareholder and as the direct or indirect holder of financial instruments) 735,907 voting rights in the Company, being 10.13% of the voting rights, whereas our last notification informed you that we held 819,186 voting rights, being 11.27%; B. we held (as direct or indirect shareholder (disregarding for these purposes holdings of financial instruments)) 735,907 voting rights in the Company, being 10.13% of the voting rights, whereas our last notification informed you that we held 819,186 voting rights, being 11.27%; and C. we held (as direct or indirect holder of financial instruments) 0 voting rights in the Company, being 0% of the voting rights, and this number has not changed since our last notification. Of those: ● 323,784 are held by us directly as a result of 323,784 A Shares being registered in our name; and ● 412,123 are held by us indirectly as a result of: (a) 235,423 A Shares being registered in the name of Cazenove Nominees Limited; and (b) 176,700 A Shares being registered in the name of Chase (GA External Pension) Nominees Limited A/C 30. Words or expressions used in the Disclosure and Transparency Rules have the same meaning when used in this notification, and references to "A Shares" are to 'A' ordinary shares of 50p each in the Company''. Martin Richardson Company Secretarial Administrator 8 October 2007
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