Share Purchase

Helical Bar PLC
21 December 2007





                                HELICAL BAR PLC

                                 PRESS RELEASE

                         NOTIFICATION OF SHARE PURCHASE

                HELICAL BAR PLC ('Helical Bar 'or 'the Company')



The Company was informed today that the following transactions had taken place:




1.      Helical Bar plc Employee Share Ownership Plan Trust ('ESOP')

On 21 December 2007 the Company's ESOP purchased 200,000 ordinary 1p shares in
the company at 300p per share. Following this purchase the ESOP holds 3,770,868
(3.9%) ordinary 1p shares in the company.




Contact:          T J Murphy                 020 7629 0113

Date of Notification                         21 December 2007






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