Transaction in Own Shares

14 May 2014

St Ives plc - ('the Company') Transaction in own shares

St Ives plc announces that, on 13 May 2014, it purchased through Numis Securities Limited 20,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company at a price of 207.0 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 149,074 ordinary shares in Treasury and has a total of 122,586,602 ordinary shares of 10p each (excluding shares held in Treasury) in issue. The number of ordinary shares purchased represented approximately 0.12% 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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