Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Universe Group PLC

("Universe" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Universe announces that it has applied for the admission to trading on AIM of 579,408 new ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares") following an exercise of options. These new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares and admission is expected to be effective on 10 March 2014.

Following the Exercise, a total of 19,420,592 options (representing approximately 9.13 per cent. of the Company's enlarged issued share capital) remain outstanding.

The Company advises that, following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Exercise as set out above, the Company's issued share capital is 212,547,534 Ordinary Shares. The above figure of 212,547,534 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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