Sale of Lease

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19 November 2018

Richoux Group plc

("Richoux" or the "Group")

Sale of Lease

Richoux Group plc (AIM:RIC), the owner and operator of Richoux, Friendly Phil's, Villagio and The Broadwick restaurants, announces that it has entered into a conditional agreement to sell the lease to its Richoux Picadilly restaurant for a gross cash consideration of £500,000 (excluding VAT).

In the 53 weeks ended 31 December 2017, Richoux Piccadilly generated unaudited losses before tax of approximately £0.01million on revenues of approximately £1.1 million.

The sale of the lease remains conditional on obtaining the landlord's licence to assign and, subject to this being received, the sale would complete before 21 March 2019. The proceeds of the sale will be used for the ongoing working capital for the Group.

The Group has also entered into conditional agreements to assign the leases to its Friendly Phil's Braintree and Richoux Gloucester Road restaurants for a gross cash consideration of £25,000 and £100,000 respectively.

Jonathan Kaye, Chief Executive of Richoux, commented:

"Following the strategic review of our estate, we have entered into agreements, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions, to sell the leases to our Piccadilly, Braintree and Gloucester Road restaurants which, if successful, will enable us to focus on the remaining portfolio."

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