Issue of Equity

16 July 2014

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

Issue of Equity

The Company announces that following the exercise of options over ordinary shares in the Company of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") by an ex-employee on 16 July 2014, the Company has applied for 161,250 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings will commence in these Ordinary Shares at 8.00 a.m. on 22 July 2014.

Following admission of the 161,250 new ordinary shares the Company's capital consists of 81,490,884 ordinary shares. The number of ordinary shares held in treasury is 4,306. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in Brady is 81,486,578.

The above figure (81,486,578) 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 25 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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