Opening of New Office

Numis Corporation PLC
18 January 2001



NUMIS CORPORATION PLC ('Numis')


Further expansion includes first regional office in Liverpool


Further to the Chairman's statement of 18 December 2000, Numis, the specialist
investment bank, is pleased to confirm the opening of its first UK regional
office in Liverpool.  The office is initially staffed by a highly ranked team
of five analysts and salespeople recruited from ING Barings Charterhouse and
HSBC, plus appropriate support staff.


The team, which is to be integrated with Numis' City based institutional
sales, research and trading operations, expands and extends Numis' sector
expertise from the current specialities in Financial Services, TMT and
Biotechnology to include Retail, Food, Support Services and Packaging.


It is planned that the office will grow over time not only adding to these
specialist areas, but also to include regional coverage, corporate finance and
corporate broking expertise - a perceived gap in the range of locally based
services available to growth companies in the North West of England.


About those who have joined:


In the consumer area Mark Hughes and Iain McDonald have arrived from the No 1
ranked ING Barings Charterhouse Retail team;  Mark was additionally ranked No2
Specialist Salesman (all sectors) in the 2000 Primark Extel Survey, and Iain
No1 Smaller Companies analyst in the same survey. Andrew Saunders joins them
from HSBC where he covered food producers.  Paul Jones broadens Numis'
coverage further having, at ING Barings Charterhouse, been top ranked in
Support Services, whilst Justin Bates' arrival extends the coverage of our
already well established Speciality & Other Financials team.  All five have
been appointed Directors of Numis Securities Ltd, the Group's principal
trading subsidiary.


Contact:


Oliver Hemsley        Chief Executive               020-7776-1500

Liverpool Office      Numis Securities Ltd          0151-227-9600 (tel)
                      Castle Chambers               0151-227-9435 (fax)
                      43 Castle St                  [e-mail]
                      LIVERPOOL
                      L2 9ST





18 January 2001



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