Add. Listing & Director Shdg

Mears Group PLC
01 July 2004


Additional Listing and Directors' Shareholding

On 30 June 2004, options were exercised under the terms of the Company's Save As
You Earn scheme resulting in the issue by Mears Group PLC of 180,680 new
ordinary shares of 1p each.

As part of this exercise of share options, Bob Holt, Chairman and Chief 
Executive of the Company; David Robertson, Finance Director of the Company and 
Phillip Molloy, Executive Director of the Company have each received 9,687 
ordinary shares at a price of 50 pence per ordinary share.

Immediately following the exercise of these options, Bob Holt and David 
Robertson gifted 9,687 ordinary shares and 9,687 ordinary shares respectively at 
nil consideration to their children. These shares were all of the shares 
received by both Bob Holt and David Robertson following yesterday's exercise of 
options.

Following the exercise of options and gift of shares, Bob Holt now has an 
interest in 5,206,458 ordinary shares of the Company which represents 9.01 per 
cent of the total issued share capital of Mears Group PLC, David Robertson has 
an interest in 200,000 ordinary shares of the Company which represents 0.35 per 
cent of the total issued share capital of Mears Group PLC and Phillip Molloy has 
an interest in 4,009,687 ordinary shares of the Company which represents 6.94 
per cent of the total issued share capital of Mears Group PLC.

Application has been made to admit these new ordinary shares to trading on the
Alternative Investment Market. It is expected that admission of these new
180,680 ordinary shares, which will rank pari passu in all respects with the
existing ordinary shares, will become effective on 6 July 2004.



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