Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

5 April 2018

AIM: UNG.L

Universe Group plc

("Universe", the "Group" or the "Company")

EXERCISE OF OPTIONS AND TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

Universe Group plc (AIM:UNG.L), a leading developer and supplier of point of sale, payment and loyalty systems, announces that it has applied for the admission to trading on AIM ("Admission") of 125,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares") following an exercise of options by a former employee. These new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares and Admission is expected to be effective on 12 April 2018.

Following the Exercise, a total of 23,994,000 options over Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 10.33 per cent. of the Company's enlarged issued share capital) remain outstanding.

The Company advises that, following Admission, the Company's issued share capital is 232,348,935 Ordinary Shares. The above figure of 232,348,935 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.

For further information:

Universe Group plc T: +44 2380 689 510

Andrew Blazye, Non-Executive Chairman

Jeremy Lewis, Chief Executive

finnCap T: +44 2072 200 500

Stuart Andrews / Henrik Persson (Corporate Finance)

Richard Chambers (Corporate Broking)

IFC Advisory T: +44 2039 346 630

Tim Metcalfe

Heather Armstrong

About Universe Group plc:

Universe provides some of the world's leading retailers with point of sale, payment and loyalty solutions. The Group's solutions are based on its own proprietary software and are offered out of the cloud on a software as a service model with its data centres processing over 5 billion transactions every year. For further information, please see www.universe-group.co.uk