Share Opts & Issue of Shares

Brooks Macdonald Group PLC
31 October 2005

Brooks Macdonald Group plc (the 'Company')

Award of share options and issue of shares



31 October 2005

Share options

The Board of Brooks Macdonald plc announces that the remuneration committee have
granted options under the Company's existing Enterprise Management Initiative
Scheme ('EMI Scheme') over a total of 172,500 Ordinary Shares of 1p each in the
Company ('Shares') to 16 senior employees, and to the four executive directors
of the Company as follows:

Christopher Macdonald                        10,000 options at 155.5p
Jonathan Gumpel                              10,000 options at 155.5p
Richard Spencer                              10,000 options at 155.5p
Simon Jackson                                20,000 options at 155.5p

The total number of options now held by each of the four executive directors as
part of the EMI scheme is as follows:

Christopher Macdonald                        10,000
Jonathan Gumpel                              10,000
Richard Spencer                              10,000
Simon Jackson                                60,000



Issue of shares

The Board of Brooks Macdonald Group plc announces that 2,100 Shares have been
issued today, under the Employee Free Share Scheme, to seven employees of the
Company.

Following this issue, the Company has 9,813,100 Shares in issue.

ENDS




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