Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Universe Group PLC

("Universe" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Universe announces the exercise on 26 February 2014 by an option holder of options over 437,500 new ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares"), each with an exercise price of 1p (the "Exercise"). 

Accordingly, the Company has applied for these 437,500 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. These new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares and admission is expected to be effective on 4 March 2014.

Following the Exercise, a total of 20,000,000 options (representing approximately 9.44 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 211,968,126 Ordinary Shares. The above figure of 211,968,126 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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