Director/PDMR Shareholding

Horizon Acquisition Company plc

(Ticker symbol: HZN)

Director/PDMR Dealings

Horizon Acquisition Company plc ("the Company") today announces that on 19 January 2011 it was informed of the following transactions in respect of B ordinary shares of 100 pence each in the capital of Horizon Acquisition Subsidiary Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company ("Founder Securities"):

On 19 January 2011 Alan McIntosh, a director of the Company, transferred 13,333 Founder Securities for £1 per Founder Security (i.e. the subscription price) to a person connected with Alan McIntosh. As a result of this transaction, Alan McIntosh remains interested in the 13,333 Founder Securities which remain subject to the terms of the lock-up arrangements described in the Company's prospectus.

This notification is in accordance with DTR 3.1.4 R(1)(a).

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