Grant of Share Options

Animalcare Group plc ("Animalcare" or the "Company")

Grant of Share Options

Animalcare (AIM: ANCR), the supplier of pharmaceutical and other premium products and services to the veterinary industry, announces that on 2 August 2012, it granted options (the "Share Options") over ordinary shares of 20 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to the following directors:

S M Wildridge 100,000 shares

I D Menneer 60,000 shares

C J Brewster 30,000 shares

These options were granted under the Animalcare Group plc Executive Share Option Scheme. The Share Options will become exercisable on 1 October 2015 at 130 pence per ordinary share.

Following this grant of options, the directors concerned have the following interests in Ordinary Shares:

Total number of Ordinary Shares over which options are held following notification:

S M Wildridge 300,000 shares

I D Menneer 125,000 shares

C J Brewster 60,000 shares

Total number of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned:

S M Wildridge 200,068 shares

I D Menneer 9,381 shares

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