Treasury Stock

Hay plc ("the Company")

 TRANSFER OF TREASURY SHARES

 In accordance with the provisions of Listing Rule 12.6.4, the Company hereby
 notifies you that on 2 August 2012 it transferred 11,376 Ordinary shares held
 in Treasury to three participants (non-PDMR) to satisfy the maturity exercise
 of options at 69p per share under the Hays plc International Sharesave Scheme.

 Following this transfer, Hays plc holds 74,580,128 Ordinary shares in Treasury.
 The number of shares in issue is 1,389,516,438(excluding treasury shares).

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