Additional Listing and Dealing by Director

Lawrence plc
                   Additional Listing and Dealing by Director

Lawrence  plc  (the  "Company"  or "Lawrence")  announces  that  certain  former
employees of Lawrence have acquired in total 467,520 Lawrence ordinary shares as
a  result of the exercise of options under the Company's Executive Share  Option
Scheme.

Accordingly,  application  has been made for these  shares  to  be  admitted  to
trading  to AIM and it is expected that admission will take place on 2  February
2005.  The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing shares  of
the  Company.  Following this allotment, the total issued share capital  of  the
Company will increase to 30,929,927 ordinary shares.

These 462,520 ordinary shares, together with 63,000 ordinary shares owned by
Mike Brent, Managing Director, have been bought by institutional investors at
350p to satisfy institutional demand.

Following this sale, Mr Brent holds 98,000 ordinary shares representing 0.32 per
cent. of the enlarged issued share capital.

27 January 2005