Exercise of Options

WH Ireland Group Plc

("WH Ireland" or the "Company")

Exercise of options

The Company announces that options over 16,304 new ordinary shares of 5p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") have been exercised pursuant to the WH Ireland Group plc Save As You Earn scheme by a former employee of the Company.

Application has been made for the 16,304 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission is expected to become effective on 15 July 2014 and the new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares in issue.

 For the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("DTRs"), the issued ordinary share capital of the Company following Admission will consist of 23,860,298 Ordinary Shares with voting rights attached (one vote per Ordinary Share). There are no Ordinary Shares held in treasury. This total voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interests in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the DTRs.

For further information please contact:

WH Ireland Group plc www.wh-ireland.co.uk

Richard Killingbeck, Chief Executive Officer +44(0) 20 7220 1666

Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited

Hugh Morgan, Corporate Finance +44 (0)20 7886 2500

MHP Communications

Reg Hoare / Jade Neal / Jamie Ricketts +44(0) 20 3128 8100 [email protected]