Strategic Minerals Regulatory News (SML)

31 Jul 2007 10:05

Smallbone PLC31 July 2007 Smallbone plc ('Smallbone' or the 'Company') Additional Listing Smallbone announces today that 47,428 new Smallbone ordinary shares of 5p each(the 'New Ordinary Shares') have been issued and allotted at a price of 92.5pence per share pursuant to the Smallbone plc Share Incentive Plan (the 'Plan'). Charles Smallbone and Gordon Montgomery, both directors of the Company, astrustees of the Plan, became the non-beneficial owners of the 47,428 NewOrdinary Shares. The beneficial ownership of the New Ordinary Shares awardedunder the Plan will pass to the employees on their request subject to theircontinued employment. GSA Montgomery has also personally participated in the Plan receiving 811 NewOrdinary Shares. As a consequence of this issue, Charles Smallbone and Gordon Montgomery have thefollowing interests in the Company; % Issued Share Beneficial % of Issued Non-Beneficial Capital in Interest Share Capital Interest the Company CD Smallbone 8,520,553 38.02% 105,283 0.47%GSA Montgomery 21,621 0.1% 103,662 0.46% Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to tradingon the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange. This is expected to be on 3August 2007. For the purposes of the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure andTransparency Rules, following the admission to trading of the New OrdinaryShares, the total number of ordinary shares of 5p of the Company in issue willbe 22,410,876 with each share holding one voting right. Enquiries Gordon Montgomery, Smallbone plc 01380 729090Rashmi Sinha, Bridgewell 0207 003 3145 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange