Issue of Equity

Celtic PLC
10 January 2008


CELTIC PLC
Issued share capital
10 January 2008

As a result of further conversions of Convertible Preferred Ordinary Shares of
100p ('CPO Shares') in the capital of Celtic plc during December 2007, the
Company's issued share capital at 31 December 2007 was as follows:

88,494,622    Ordinary Shares of 1p each
14,544,911    Cumulative Convertible Preferred Ordinary Shares of 100p each
16,798,943    Cumulative Convertible Preference Shares of 60 p each
438,603,210   Deferred Shares of 1p each

Cumulative Convertible Preference Shares do not carry voting rights. Deferred
Shares are not listed, are not transferable and carry no voting rights or
substantive economic rights.

The above figures for Ordinary Shares and CPO Shares 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 in their interest, under the
FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Between 1 September 2007, when the CPO Shares became convertible, and 31
December 2007 3,454,257 CPO Shares have been converted into 7,184,853 new
Ordinary Shares of 1p each and 338,240,847 Deferred Shares of 1p each. 7,145,887
of the new Ordinary Shares have been listed to date, with application being made
for the remaining 38,966 Ordinary Shares to be listed with effect from 17
January 2008.

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