26 October 2011

M.P. Evans Group PLC

("M.P. Evans" or the "Company")

Exercise of options and PDMR shareholding

The Company announces that it has been notified of the exercise of options today by Mr P E Hadsley-Chaplin and Mr P A Fletcher, both directors of the Company.  Mr P E Hadsley-Chaplin exercised his options over 120,365 10p shares granted at 96.50p per share and over 179,300 shares granted at 101.78p per share.  Mr P A Fletcher exercised his options over 82,500 shares granted at 96.50p per share and over 179,300 shares granted at 101.78p per share.   Accordingly, the Company has issued Mr P E Hadsley-Chaplin 299,665 shares and Mr P A Fletcher 261,800 shares. The options were granted under the executive share-option scheme.

At the same time, Mr P E Hadsley-Chaplin sold 181,000 shares at 405p per share and Mr P A Fletcher sold 156,000 shares at 405p per share in order to fund the majority of the exercise cost of the share options and the associated tax liabilities.   As part of the transaction, Mr P E Hadsley-Chaplin also transferred 11,558 shares at a price of 405p per share into his Self-Invested Personal Pension ("SIPP") whilst Mr P A Fletcher transferred 12,333 shares at a price of 405p per share into his SIPP.

As a result of the exercise of the options, the share disposals and the shares transferred into SIPP's, these directors' holdings in the shares of the Company are now as follows:-

The Company has also received notice that Mr J D Shaw has sold 50,000 shares at a price of 405p per share.  As a result of this transaction, Mr J D Shaw's holding in the shares of the Company is now as follows:-

Following the above transactions, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 53,989,005.

The above figure of 53,989,005 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5.6.1.

Enquiries:

M.P. Evans Group PLC           Telephone: 01892 516333

 Peter Hadsley-Chaplin

 Philip Fletcher

 Tristan Price

Peel Hunt LLP                           Telephone: 020 7418 8900

Dan Webster

Capel Irwin

Hudson Sandler                       Telephone:  020 7796 4133

Charlie Jack

Katie Matthews