Block Admission Application

16 September 2015

Benchmark Holdings plc

("Benchmark" or the "Company")

Block Admission Application

The Company announces that an application has been made to the London Stock Exchange plc for a block admission of 800,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the capital of the Company ("New Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will occur on 21 September 2015.

These New Ordinary Shares shall be issued and allotted from time to time pursuant to the exercise of share options under both the Company's Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) and CSOP schemes. The New Ordinary Shares, when issued, shall rank equally with the Company's existing issued ordinary shares.

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital remains unchanged at 219,330,095. The company will notify on a monthly basis where there have been changes to the issued share capital.

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