Additional Listing

Lawrence plc (the "Company" or "Lawrence")

                               Additional Listing

The  Board has been notified today that an employee has acquired 30,000 Lawrence
ordinary  shares at a price of £2.02½ per share as a  result  of  the
exercise of options granted on 6 August 2003.

Accordingly,  application has been made for 30,000 new  ordinary  shares  to  be
admitted to trading on AIM on 2 March 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 30,959,927 ordinary shares.

25TH FEBRUARY 2005