Director/PDMR Shareholding

Harvey Nash Group plc

("the Company")

Harvey Nash Group plc

EBT Share Purchase

Harvey Nash Group plc (the Company) announces that on 25 October 2012 the Harvey Nash Group EBT Limited purchased 369,459 ordinary shares at 61.125p pence per share (a price which includes the interim dividend of 1.125p), in the Company.

Following this purchase, the Harvey Nash Group EBT Limited held 785,045 shares. 703,000 ordinary shares in the Company have now been transferred to Directors and employees of the Company by the Harvey Nash Group EBT Limited in order to satisfy the exercise of options under the Harvey Nash 2000 Executive Share Option Scheme.

Following this transfer, the Harvey Nash Group EBT Limited will hold 82,045 shares.

The Trust is a discretionary trust under which all employees of the Harvey Nash Group are potential beneficiaries, including the directors, each of which is deemed for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006 as interested in all of the Shares held by Harvey Nash Group EBT Limited.

Director / PDMR shareholding

The Company also announces that on 24 October 2012 the Directors listed below exercised options under the Harvey Nash 2000 Executive Share Option Scheme:-

Such options were due to lapse before April 2013.

Each of the said Directors has only sold sufficient shares to cover the costs of exercise and related tax charges and have retained the balance.

As a result of these transactions, Albert Ellis now holds 665,704 shares in the Company, which represents 0.9% of the issued share capital. Simon Wassall now holds 213,397 shares in the Company, which represents 0.3% of the issued share capital.

Further information is available from:

Richard Ashcroft, Group Finance Director - 020 7333 0033

29 October 2012

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