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For immediate release 29 February 2012

ASSOCIATED BRITISH ENGINEERING PLC

("the Company")

For the purposes of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Services Authority the Company announces the following:

As at the date of this announcement, the Company's issued share capital consists of 2,048,990 Ordinary Shares with a nominal value of 2.5p each, with voting rights ("Ordinary Shares"). The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury. Therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights is 2,048,990.

The Company's issued share capital consists of 2,048,990 Ordinary Shares and this number should be used by shareholders in the Company 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, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Contact:

Colin Weinberg, Associated British Engineering PLC 0043 664 885 019 800

David Brown, Associated British Engineering PLC 0044 781 418603

Roland Cornish/Felicity Geidt, Beaumont Cornish Limited 0207 628 3396