ARL.L Regulatory News (ARL)

17 Aug 2007 09:49

Numis Securities Limited17 August 2007 DEALINGS BY CONNECTED EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADERS WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY (Rule 38.5(a) of the Takeover Code) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of exempt principal trader Numis Securities Limited Company dealt in SMC Group PLC Class of relevant security to which the Ordinary shares 0.5pdealings being disclosed relate (Note 1) Date of dealing 16 August 2007 2. DEALINGS (Note 2) (a) Purchases and sales Total number of securities purchased Highest price paid (Note 3) Lowest price paid (Note 3) 43,713 22 17 Total number of securities sold Highest price received (Note 3) Lowest price received (Note 3) 55,306 20.5 19 (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options) Product name, Long/short (Note 4) Number of securities (Note 5) Price per unit (Note 3)e.g. CFD Nil Nil Nil Nil (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product name, Writing, selling, Number of securities Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Option money purchasing, to which the option price American, date paid/received pere.g. call option varying etc. relates (Note 5) European etc. unit (Note 3) Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call option Number of securities Exercise price per unit (Note 3) Nil Nil Nil 3. OTHER INFORMATION Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. N/A Date of disclosure 17 August 2007 Contact name Henry Jenkins Telephone number 0207 260 1259 Name of offeree/offeror with which connected SMC Group PLC Nature of connection (Note 6) NOMAD and Broker to SMC Group PLC Notes The Notes on Form 38.5(a) can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange