Management Resource Solutions Regulatory News (MRS)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

17 June 2011

DIRECTORS' SHARE PURCHASE

Melrose Resources plc (LSE: MRS) ("the Company") announces that, on 16 June 2011, it received notification of the following changes in Directors' shareholdings as a result of the purchase of shares in the Company, further details of which are set out below.

Notes:

(1) The interests of Mr Adair as at 10 June 2011 include 57,391,423 ordinary shares held by Skye Investments Limited, a company in which he has a controlling interest.

(2) The 25,000 shares purchased on 10 June 2011 were acquired at a price of 236.50 pence per share. The shares were acquired to be held within Mr Adair's personal pension account.

(3) The Company has 114,689,178 ordinary shares in issue.

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