Application for Block Listing

17 April 2014

St Ives plc

Application for Block Listing

St Ives plc (the "Company") announces that an application has by way of a block listing been made to the UK Listing Authority for the admission of 2,600,000 ordinary shares of 10p each to the premium listing segment of the Official List and to trading on London Stock Exchange plc's main market for listed securities.

These shares will, upon issue, rank pari passu with the existing issued ordinary shares of the Company.

The shares will be issued pursuant to the following Company schemes:

· HMRC Approved and Unapproved Discretionary Executive Share Option Scheme

· HMRC Unapproved Long Term Incentive Plan

· All-employee Sharesave Scheme

For enquiries please contact:

Philip Harris

Group Company Secretary

020 7902 6337