Helical Bar plc ("Helical Bar" "the Company")

Notification of Interests of Directors
and Connected Persons

The Company was informed on 7th January 2014 that the following transactions had taken place:

1.            Share Incentive Plan

On 7th January 2014, under the rules of the Helical Bar plc Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), Helical Bar Trustees Limited, using contributions to the Plan by directors and employees matched in a 2:1 ratio by the Company, had awarded 23,758 ordinary shares to directors and employees at the closing mid-market price on 6th January 2014 of 321.75p.

Shares awarded to the directors were as follows:

DirectorNumber of Shares

Michael Slade                                   1,434

Timothy Murphy                              1,434

Gerald Kaye                                       1,433

Matthew Bonning-Snook             1,426

Jack Pitman                                        1,434

Duncan Walker                                 1,136    

2.            Directors' Interests in Shares

Following these transactions the directors' interests in shares are as follows:


Shares Legally Held

Deferred
Shares

Share Incentive Plan

Performance Plan

Total

Michael Slade

12,999,738

(11.0%)

-

36,309

2,089,498

15,125,545

Tim Murphy

95,520

(0.1%)

6,731

36,310

915,247

1,053,808

Gerald Kaye

1,502,871

(1.3%)

90,282

36,269

1,580,969

3,210,391

Matthew Bonning-Snook

252,929

(0.2%)

90,282

35,862

1,264,775

1,643,848

Jack Pitman

407,707

(0.3%)

29,738

36,310

1,264,775

1,738,530

Duncan Walker

-

(-%)

29,738

19,205

957,960

1,006,903

Contact: T J Murphy (020 7629 0113)

Date of notification: 8th January 2014


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