Director/PDMR Shareholding

19 June 2015

Poundland Group plc

Notification of Transactions of Directors / Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility

Paragraph 3.1.4 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules

Poundland Group plc (the "Company") announces that on 19 June 2015, in accordance with paragraph 3.1.2R of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, Darren Shapland, Non-Executive Chairman, notified the Company that his wife, Wendy Sarah Shapland, had on the day of the notification acquired 37,500 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 3.162 each.

The combined holding of Mr and Mrs Shapland in the Company is now 65,000 Ordinary Shares, which is 0.02% of the entire issued share capital.

Jinder Jhuti

Company Secretary

Poundland Group