Appointment of Chief Scientific Officer

2 October 2018

Benchmark Holdings plc("Benchmark" or the "Company")

Appointment of Chief Scientific Officer

Benchmark Holdings plc (AIM: BMK), the aquaculture health, advanced nutrition, and genetics business, is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement on 2 July 2018 of the appointment of Dr Alex Raeber as Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Raeber has now joined the board and commenced his role at the Company.

Malcolm Pye, Chief Executive of Benchmark, said:

"I am delighted that Alex has now joined Benchmark as Chief Scientific Officer. I very much look forward to working closely with him in the next stage of our exciting development."

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Notes to Editors:

Benchmark challenges the status quo in aquaculture. Since 2000, Benchmark has consistently worked to build a technology-rich platform in the areas of genetics, advanced nutrition, animal health and knowledge services, to serve its customers, helping them take control of their biological environment to improve yield and efficiency in a sustainable way.

The Company has leading positions in its core markets and established R&D, manufacturing and distribution capabilities to serve all the major aquaculture markets. Benchmark operates in 27 countries in five continents and as at 31 March 2018, it employed 1028 people.

For further information on Benchmark please visit www.benchmarkplc.com / @WeAreBenchmark