Issue of Equity

SHARE ISSUE

BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust plc

The Company announces that today it issued 350,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each for cash, at a price of 76.25 pence per share, a premium to the Company’s net asset value, under its ordinary share blocklisting facility.  The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares.

Following this issue of shares, the number of ordinary shares that the Company has in issue is 111,068,000.  The total number of voting rights of the Company is 111,068,000 and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company, under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contact name for queries:

K V Higgins - BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited
8 July 2015

Tel: 020 7743 1089

UK 100

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