S & U Regulatory News (SUS)

3 November 2011

 S & U PLC ("S&U" or "the Company")

DTR 5.6.1 and Director/PDMR Shareholding

S&U have issued 10,000 ordinary shares of 12.5p each ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company in order to satisfy options issued under the Company 2008 DSOP. Following the issue of these Ordinary Shares the Company has 11,747,228 Ordinary Shares in issue. An application has been made to the London Stock exchange for these Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading and admission is expected on 8 November 2011.

DISCLOSURE AND TRANSPARENCY RULES DTR 5.6.1 R

There are 200,000 6.0% Cumulative preference shares of £1 each in the Company and 3,599,106 31.5% Cumulative preference shares of 12.5p each in the Company.

S&U does not hold any shares in treasury.

Following the issue of these Ordinary Shares, the total number of voting rights in S&U is 11,747,228, which number should be used by shareholders and other parties subject to disclosure obligations as the denominator for the calculations by which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in or a change to their interest in the share capital of S&U under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Further to this issue, S & U were advised that the following Executive Directors exercised share options and sold Ordinary Shares on 2 November 2011.

Chris Redford exercised approved options over 4,000 Ordinary Shares granted in June 2008. He subsequently sold 3,000 of these Ordinary Shares at an average price of 615p per Ordinary Share. Following this transaction, the beneficial shareholding of Chris Redford is 1,000 Ordinary Shares representing 0.01% of the total voting rights of the Company.

Guy Thompson exercised approved options over 6,000 Ordinary Shares granted in June 2008. He subsequently sold 4,000 of these Ordinary Shares at an average price of 615p per Ordinary Share. Following this transaction, the beneficial shareholding of Guy Thompson is 2,000 Ordinary Shares representing 0.02% of the total voting rights of the Company.

For further information, please contact: 

S&U plc www.suplc.co.uk 

Anthony Coombs, Chairman 0121 705 7777 

Broker and Financial Adviser

Adrian Trimmings/Jamie Cameron Arden Partners 020 7614 5920

Media and Investor Relations

Will Swan / Rebecca Whitehead Smithfield 020 7360 4900