Holding(s) in Company

Holding(s) in Company

Young & Co's Brewery PLC

Young & Co.’s Brewery, P.L.C. (the “Company”)

Notification relating to a major interest in shares pursuant to AIM Rule 17 and 5.8.12R(2) of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules in relation to A shares of 12.5p each in the capital of the Company (ISIN: GB00B2NDK765)

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Today, the Company received the following notification from Christopher Andrew Sandland:

Pursuant to 5.1.2R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules and following the grant to me (as Chairman of the meeting) of proxies entitling me to decide with discretion how votes are cast at the Company’s annual general meeting to be held tomorrow, 14 July 2009 (the “AGM”), I, Christopher Andrew Sandland, hereby notify you that immediately after the time when the obligation to make this notification arose:

A. I held (as shareholder and as the direct or indirect holder of qualifying financial instruments and financial instruments with similar economic effects) 153,340 voting rights in the Company, being 0.53% of the voting rights;

B. I held (as direct or indirect shareholder (disregarding for these purposes holdings of financial instruments)) 1,151,560 voting rights in the Company, being 3.96% of the voting rights;

C. I held (as a result of direct and indirect holdings of qualifying financial instruments) 0 voting rights in the Company, being 0% of the voting rights; and

D. I was deemed to have held (as a result of direct and indirect holdings of financial instruments having similar economic effects to (but not including) qualifying financial instruments in C. above, if any) 0 voting rights in the Company, being 0% of the voting rights.

Of those:

● 153,340 are held by me directly as a result of 153,340 A Shares being registered in my name; and

● 998,220 are held by me indirectly as a result of the grant to me of proxies entitling me to decide with discretion how the votes on 998,220 A Shares are cast at the AGM – the actual number of votes varies from resolution to resolution at the AGM but this is the biggest number - all the voting rights relating to these proxies revert to the relevant shareholders at the conclusion of the AGM.

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 shares of 12.5p each in the Company.

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Anthony Schroeder

Company Secretary

13 July 2009