Director/PDMR Shareholding

Mattioli Woods plc

("Mattioli Woods" or "the Company")

Director/PDMR shareholding

Mattioli Woods plc (AIM: MTW.L) announces it was notified today that on 18 October 2012, Murray Smith, the Company's Marketing and Sales Director, sold 5,000 Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary shares") in the Company to his Self-Invested Personal Pension ("SIPP") at a price of 200 pence per share. Murray Smith's beneficial interest in 258,332 Ordinary Shares, representing 1.42% of the Company's issued share capital, remains as previously notified.

Separately, on 18 October 2012, Mark Smith, the Company's Operations Director, sold 5,000 Ordinary shares to his SIPP at a price of 197 pence per share. Mark Smith's beneficial interest in 69,468 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.38% of the Company's issued share capital, remains as previously notified.

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