Lonrho Regulatory News (LONR)

26th September 2012

LONRHO PLC

("Lonrho" or the "Company")

DIRECTOR DEALING

Lonrho announces that it was informed by Emma Priestley, an Executive Director of the Company, that she has exercised 1,065,000 options that were due to expire and has sold sufficient shares to meet the costs related to the exercise of the options.

Her exercise was 1,065,000 options at 6.5 pence per ordinary share on 24th September 2012 pursuant to the Lonrho Plc Unapproved Company Share Option Plan (the "Share Option Plan"). Ms Priestley sold 921,178 ordinary shares at a price of 9.125p pence per share on 25th September 2012 to satisfy the payment of the exercise price, income tax, national insurance and dealing fees. The balance of 143,822 ordinary shares was retained by Emma Priestley.

Emma Priestley's total interest in shares following this transaction is 187,926 shares, representing 0.01% of the Company's issued share capital.

The total number of shares in issue following the exercise of these and other options over a total of 6,430,000 ordinary shares is 1,586,856,596 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 1p each, with voting rights. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in the Treasury.

The above figure of 1,586,856,596 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.