Notification of Major Interest in Shares

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached: ii

EMIS Group plc Ord 1p

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights

Other (please specify):

Partial recall of right to recall loaned shares

Yes

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation: iii

NFU Mutual Insurance Society Limited

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached: v

23rd January 2017

6. Date on which issuer notified:

24th January 2017

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached: vi, vii

 >4% (Direct net of stock lending Box 8A)

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights x

Direct xi

Indirect xii

Direct

Indirect

Ordinary shares

3,048,829*

3,048,829*

3,093,000¥

2,551,300¥

541,700

4.02980%

0.8556%

GB00B61D1Y04

*Aggregated figure net of 102,141 right to recall loaned shares (Direct)

¥ Aggregated figure net of 57,970 right to recall loaned shares (Direct)

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate xiii

Exercise/Conversion Period xiv

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

RIGHT TO RECALL LOANED SHARES

N/A

N/A

57,970 Direct

0.0915% Direct

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date xvii

Exercise/Conversion period xviii

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights xix, xx

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

Direct 2,609,270

Indirect 541,700

Direct 4.1213%

Indirect 0.8556%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

NFU Mutual Insurance Society (General Fund) 1.6336% (Direct net of 57,970 shares on loan)

NFU Mutual Insurance Society (Life Fund) 1.0350% (Direct)

NFU Mutual Insurance Society (CIB Equity Fund) 0.4363% (Direct)

NFU Mutual Insurance Society (UP Equity Fund) 0.9248% (Direct)

NFU Mutual Retirement Benefits Scheme 0.2388 % (Indirect)

NFU Staff Pension Scheme 0.0182% (Indirect)

NFU Mutual UK Growth OEIC 0.4407% (indirect)

NFU Mutual UK Equity Income OEIC 0.1579% (indirect)

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights:

13. Additional information:

Pursuant to the Stock Lending Agreement with the NFU Mutual Insurance Society Limited and JPMorgan Chase & Co., NFU Mutual Insurance Society Limited, has loaned out 57,970 Ordinary Shares. The total number of direct voting rights held by NFU Mutual Insurance Society Limited, has subsequently gone below 4%.

Please note, total amount of voting rights have been rounded to 4 decimal places therefore there is a possibility of a rounding error.

14. Contact name:

Adam Inman

15. Contact telephone number:

01789 202693