Exercise of Options

Zoo Digital Group PLC 18 August 2003 Zoo Digital Group PLC ('the Company' or 'Zoo') Notification of Interests of Directors and Exercise of Options Zoo Digital Group plc announces that it was informed today that Ian Stewart, the Company's Chief Executive, today exercised an option to acquire 1,000,000 ordinary shares at a price of 3p per share from Mr Stephen Bailey. Following the acquisition Mr Stewart holds 52,180,298 ordinary shares in the Company, representing 23.96 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital. Mr Bailey now holds 7,187,948 ordinary shares in the Company representing 3.30 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital. The Company also announces that Robert Deri, Chief Financial Officer, was today granted options over 2,252,823 ordinary shares exercisable at a price of 2.5 pence per ordinary share. Mr Deri has also been granted options by Zoo Employee Share Trust ('ZEST') over 1,000,000 existing shares owned by ZEST at a price of nil pence per Ordinary Share. The above options are granted under the Zoo Digital Group plc Unapproved Employee Share option Scheme and are exercisable between 01/01/2004 and 01/01/2014. Following this notification Mr Deri holds options over 6,505,646 ordinary shares. The Company also announces that, on 15 August 2003, it approved the issue and allotment of 1,000,058 new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company following an exercise of 1,000,058 share options under the Enterprise Management Incentive Scheme by former employees as follows: No of shares Exercise price 64,000 Nil 16,000 7.75p 920,058 0.01199p Total 1,000,058 These shares will rank pari passu with all existing ordinary shares. Application has been made for admission of the new ordinary shares to trading on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange and dealings are expected to commence on 21 August 2003. The ordinary shares referred to above are ordinary shares of 0.2 pence per share. The number of shares in issue following admission is 218,770,184. Enquiries: Ian Stewart, Chief Executive John Barnes, Chairman Zoo Digital Group plc Tel: 0114 241 3700 www.zoodigitalgroup.com Alasdair Robinson Noble & Company Limited Tel: 0131 225 9677 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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