Exercise of Options, Issue of Equity, TVR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 August 2017

CREIGHTONS PLC ("Creightons" or "the Company")

Exercise of Employee Share Options, Issue of Equity, and Total Voting Rights

The Company is pleased to announce that further to the exercise of options by a member of the employee's share option scheme, a total of 45,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each ("the Option Shares") have been issued for a total of £1,912.50.

Application will be made for the Option Shares, which will rank pari passu with the Company's existing ordinary shares, to be admitted to listing on the premium listing segment of the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities ("Admission"). Admission is expected on or around 18 August 2017.

On Admission, the Company will have 60,597,243 ordinary shares in issue with voting rights. Creightons does not currently hold any shares in treasury. Accordingly, this figure of 60,597,243 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation No. 596/2014 on market abuse. Upon the publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

Enquiries - Analysts and Investors

Nicholas O'Shea, Director, Creightons Plc 01733 281000

Roland Cornish / Felicity Geidt, Beaumont Cornish Limited 0207 628 3396

Enquiries - Press

Clive Hunter-Dunne, Anagallis Communications Limited 07922 697198 [email protected]