Notice of AGM

COATS GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

NOTICE OF THE COMPANY'S

2015 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ("AGM")

Coats Group plc announces that its AGM will be held on 21 May 2015 at FTI Consulting, 200 Aldersgate, Aldersgate Street, London, EC1A 4HD at 2:30 pm. The Notice of AGM has today been posted to shareholders and has been placed on the Company's website at www.coats.com/investors.

A copy of the Notice of AGM has also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Stuart Morgan

Group Company Secretary

17 April 2015