Issue of Equity

29 December 2014

Brady plc ("Brady" or the "Group")

Issue of Equity

The Company announces that it has applied for admission of 40,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company following the exercise of options by an ex-employee. It is expected that Admission will take place and trading in the new shares will commence on 2 January 2015.

Following admission of the 40,000 new ordinary shares the Company's capital consists of 81,655,884 ordinary shares. The number of ordinary shares held in treasury is 4,306. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Brady is 81,651,578.

The above figure (81,651,578) 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, Brady under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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About Brady

Brady plc (BRY.L) is the largest European-headquartered provider of trading and risk management software to the global commodity and energy markets. Brady combines fully integrated and complete solutions supporting the entire commodity trading operation, from capture of financial and physical trading, through risk management, handling of physical operations, back office financials and treasury settlement, for energy, refined, unrefined and scrap metals, soft commodities and agriculturals.

Brady has 30 years' expertise in the commodity markets with some 300 customers worldwide, who depend on Brady's software solutions to deliver vital business transactions across their global operations. Brady clients include many of the world's largest financial institutions, trading companies, miners, refiners and producers, recycling companies, scrap processors, tier one banks and a large number of London Metal Exchange (LME) Category 1 and 2 clearing members and many leading European energy generators, traders and consumers.

For further information visit: www.bradyplc.com

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