Director Shareholding

For release: 28 November 2013

Hansteen Holdings PLC

DIRECTOR Shareholding

Hansteen Holdings PLC (the "Company") announces that it has today received notification from Richard Lowes, a Director of the Company, that on 26 November 2013, he exercised the following unapproved share options:

Name of Scheme Grant Date No of Shares Exercise Price

Exercised

2005 Share Option 03 January 2006 300,000 93.8 pence

Scheme (Unapproved)

2005 Share Option 20 April 2009 300,000 66.2 pence

Scheme (Unapproved)

As previously notified by the Company on 22 November 2013 in the announcement entitled "Blocklisting Application", the Company met its obligations to Mr Lowes and other option holders under the 2005 Share Option Scheme using new issue ordinary shares.

Following the exercise of the share options, Mr Lowes sold a total of 600,000 ordinary shares in the Company at an average price of 107.51 pence per share. The number of ordinary shares sold represented less than 0.001% of the Ordinary Shares in issue.

Mr Lowes retains his previously declared shareholding of 704,107 ordinary shares in the Company (0.001% of the ordinary shares in issue).

This announcement is made under the UKLA's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4.

Enquiries:

For further information:

Michaella Hornbuckle

Company Secretary

Hanteen Holdings PLC

Tel: 020 7408 7000