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ALBEMARLE & BOND HOLDINGS PLC

(the "Company")

Directors' Dealings

Long Term Incentive Plan

Albemarle & Bond Holdings plc ("the Company") announces that on 10 November 2011, it made a grant of awards over the Company's ordinary shares of 4 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") under the Albemarle & Bond Holdings Plc Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") to the persons detailed in the table below:

Awards granted under the LTIP will vest on 30 June 2014 but only to the extent that certain performance criteria relating to earnings per share growth are satisfied by the Company over a three year performance period which commenced on 1 July 2011. No consideration is payable for the grant of the awards and the receipt of the whole or part of the number of Ordinary shares is conditional upon meeting the performance criteria.

The notification of these awards is intended to satisfy the Company's obligations under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Director Dealing

On 11 November 2011 the Company received notice of the following market sale of Ordinary Shares by Mr John Farrell, Non-Executive Director of the Company:

Following the above transaction, Mr Farrell no longer has a direct interest in the Company's shares, but remains indirectly interested via EZCORP, Inc, a 29.9% shareholder of the Company, of which Mr Farrell is a board member.

Enquiries:

Albemarle & Bond Holdings plc 0118 955 8100

Barry Stevenson CEO

Collins Stewart Europe Limited 020 7523 8350

Mark Dickenson

Piers Coombs

Cardew Group 020 7930 0777

Tim Robertson

Shan Shan Willenbrock

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