New Contract

24 Mar 2009 07:00

24 March 2009

New Contract

Brady plc ("Brady" or the "Company"), the global provider of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the metals and commodities industries, announces that Xstrata Copper, one of the commodity business units within the major global diversified mining group Xstrata plc, has selected Brady's Aquarius solution to supply the organisation's metal trading business. Xstrata Copper is the world's fourth largest copper producer with mining and processing facilities located in Australia, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Canada.

This is the Company's first sale of Aquarius since Brady acquired the specialist metals trading technology through its acquisition of Comsoft in January 2009.

For further information, please contact:

Brady plc +44 (0)1223 479479 Gavin Lavelle, Chief Executive Officer Tony Ratcliffe, Finance Director Oriel Securities Limited (Nominated +44 (0)20 7710 7600

Adviser) Andrew Edwards Michael Shaw