Share Matching Plan ("SMP") Acquisition of Shares

British Polythene Industries PLC

18 October 2011

British Polythene Industries PLC (the "Company")

Share Matching Plan ("SMP") Acquisition of Shares

The Company has today been informed that the Trustees of the British Polythene Industries Plc Employees Share Ownership Trust (the "Trust") have acquired, on 17 September 2011, 43,000 Ordinary shares of 25p each in the Company at a price of £3.1748 per share. The shares were acquired for use in the SMP. Mr JT Langlands, Mr D Harris, Mr D Duthie, Mr A Green, Mr M Huyghe, Mr D Pendlebury , as Executive Directors and PDMRs of the Company, are beneficiaries of the SMP and as such they have an interest in the shares for the purposes of DTR 3.1.

Following the acquisition the Trust owns 854,071 ordinary shares in the Company, representing 3.223% of the total voting rights.

Enquiries:

Ray Brooksbank, Group Company Secretary 01475 501050