Transaction in Own Shares

27 March 2015

St Ives plc - ('the Company')

Transaction in own shares

St Ives plc announces that, on 26 March 2015, it purchased through Numis Securities Limited 17,500 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company at a price of 164.77 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 316,294 ordinary shares in Treasury and has a total of 126,860,043 ordinary shares of 10p each (excluding shares held in Treasury) in issue. The number of ordinary shares purchased represented approximately 0.01% of the voting rights attributable to the total ordinary shares in issue prior to such purchase.

Philip Harris

Group Company Secretary

St Ives plc

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