Award of shares under the Share Incentive Plan

Cyril Sweett Group plc (the "Company")

13 October 2011

Award of shares under the Share Incentive Plan

The Company announces that it received notification on 15 September 2011 that, following payroll contributions made on 31 August 2011, Cyril Sweett Trustee Company Limited, trustee of the HMRC approved Cyril Sweett All Employee Share Ownership Plan ("SIP'), awarded 18,399 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to participants in the SIP. All of the 18,399 shares were unallocated shares already held in the SIP.

The Company also announces that it has received notification on 5 October 2011 that Cyril Sweett Trustee Company Limited has used its dividend to purchase dividend shares on behalf of participants in the SIP.

The SIP is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees of the Company and participating subsidiaries, which holds Ordinary shares acquired and/or awarded under the partnership, matching, free and dividend shares sections of the plan. Following a change to the SIP Trust Deed and Rules on 1 January 2011, eligible participating employees now contribute funds to purchase partnership shares on a monthly basis. Dividends in respect of shares held by the SIP are re-invested to purchase dividend shares.

Following the appropriation and the dividend re-investment, Cyril Sweett Trustee Company Limited holds 11,047,702 Ordinary shares representing 16.67% of the issued share capital of the Company.

Under the SIP, Mr Dean Webster, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Mr Derek Pitcher, a Director of the Company, each purchased 455 ordinary shares at a price of 27.5p per share via contributions made on 31 August 2011.

Dividend shares were awarded under the SIP to the Directors, Mr Dean Webster, Mr Chris Goscomb, Mr Michael Henderson, Mr Eamonn Kerr, Mr Roger Mabey and Mr Derek Pitcher, as per the table below, on 21 September 2011 at a price of 27.5p.

Under the dividend re-investment plan Mr Roger Mabey also purchased 1,841 ordinary shares on 9 September 2011 at a price of 29p. This is also included in the table below.

Therefore, directors' beneficial holdings in the Company have changed following the above appropriations, award of dividend shares and take up under the dividend re-investment plan and are now as follows:

At the date of this announcement, the Company's issued share capital consists of 66,281,958 Ordinary shares with voting rights and the Company holds no Ordinary shares in Treasury.

For further information, call:

Cyril Sweett Group plc 020 7061 9053

Danielle Pass, Company Secretary

Arbuthnot Securities Limited 020 7012 2123

Andrew Kitchingman

ENDS