Additional Listing

Ninth Floor (The) PLC
12 October 2001

                     The Ninth Floor plc ('the Company')


                           Application for listing




Further to the announcement on the 3 October 2001 on the acquisition of the
remaining 40 per cent. of IO MM Software Limited which the Company does not
already own, the Company has made application today for the 1,500,000 new
Ordinary Shares of 1p each issued as vendor consideration to be admitted to
the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange ('AIM').


Admission of the new Ordinary Shares on AIM is expected to be on 18 October
2001.