Allotment of Shares

5 Apr 2005 17:00

Falkland Islands Holdings PLC05 April 2005 Falkland Islands Holdings plc Allotment of new shares For immediate release 05 April 2005 The board of Falkland Islands Holdings plc ("FIH") announces that it hasallotted a further 45,619 new FIH Shares in connection with the receipt offurther acceptances of the offer by FIH for the whole of the issued sharecapital of The Portsmouth Harbour Ferry Company PLC ("PHFC"). Following the issue of 45,619 new FIH shares referred to above FIH has 8,379,480shares in issue. Enquiries Dawnay, Day Corporate Finance Ltd David Floyd, Director Tel: 020 7509 4570 The persons responsible for this announcement are the directors of FIH. Dawnay Day has approved the contents of this announcement for the purposes ofs21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Dawnay, Day Corporate Finance Limited ("Dawnay Day"), which is authorised andregulated in the United Kingdom by the FSA, is acting exclusively for FIH andfor no one else in connection with the Offer and will not be responsible toanyone other than FIH for providing the protections afforded to its customers orfor providing advice in relation to the Offer. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR INPART IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, SOUTH AFRICA ORJAPAN This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange