H&t Group Plc Regulatory News (HAT)

10 APRIL 2013

H&T GROUP PLC

LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN & SHARE ISSUE

H&T Group plc announces that on 28 March 2013 an award was confirmed to the Executive Director's of the Group, under the H&T Long-Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") of 175,015 nil cost ordinary share awards granted by the H&T Employee Benefit Trust (the "Trust"). The allocation by director is as follows:

Mr J Nichols 82,276

Mr A Maby 51,691

Mr S Fenerty 41,048

In addition, an award of 88,800 nil cost ordinary shares was made to other senior executives of the Group, again under the LTIP.

In accordance with the rules of the LTIP, the shares subject to the LTIP awards will be released on 28 March 2016 subject to continued employment and the satisfaction of certain specific performance conditions. These are based on achieving growth in profit before tax at between 8% and 15% per annum.

Accordingly, the Company has issued 263,815 ordinary shares of 5p each (the "New Ordinary Shares") to satisfy the award. The New Ordinary Shares are held by Kleinwort Benson (Jersey) Trustees Limited (the "Trustee") on behalf of the Trust.

Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares, ranking pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares in issue, to be admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange ("Admission"). It is expected that dealings in the New Ordinary Shares will commence on 16th April 2013. Following Admission of the New Ordinary Shares, the Company will have 36,856,264 ordinary shares of 5p each in issue, with each share having one voting right.

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