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RNS Number : 2056K 
Abbeycrest PLC 
14 April 2010 
 

14 April 2010 
                                 Abbeycrest plc 
                             Grant of Share Options 
The Board of Directors of Abbeycrest plc ("Abbeycrest" or the "Company") 
announces that following approval by the Company's Remuneration Committee, the 
Company has today granted each of its executive directors ("the Executive 
Directors") options ("Options") under the Abbeycrest 2010 Approved Executive 
Share Option Plan ("the Approved Plan") and the Abbeycrest 2010 Unapproved 
Executive Share Option Plan ("the Unapproved Plan", together with the Approved 
Plan, "the Plans") in total over 9,430,949 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in 
the share capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") for GBPnil consideration. 
The Options were granted following today's General Meeting of Abbeycrest, at 
which the Plans were approved by the Company's shareholders. 
The Options granted to the Executive Directors under the Unapproved Plan have an 
exercise price of nine pence per Ordinary Share. The Options granted to the 
Executive Directors under the Approved Plan have an exercise price of 7.38 pence 
per Ordinary Share. 
The number of Ordinary Shares subject to the Options granted, together with the 
beneficial interests of the Executive Directors currently held in the issued 
share capital of the Company, is as follows: 
+----------------+----------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ 
| Executive      |      No. |     No. of |     Total |       No. |        No. | 
| Director       |       of |   Ordinary |       no. |        of |   Ordinary | 
|                | Ordinary |     Shares |        of |  Ordinary |     Shares | 
|                |   Shares |    subject |  Ordinary |    Shares |  currently | 
|                |  subject |         to |    Shares | currently |  held as a | 
|                |       to |    Options |   subject |      held | percentage | 
|                |  Options |    granted |        to |           |     of the | 
|                |  granted |      under |   Options |           |  Company's | 
|                |    under |        the |   granted |           |     issued | 
|                |      the | Unapproved |     under |           |      share | 
|                | Approved |       Plan |       the |           |    capital | 
|                |     Plan |            |     Plans |           |            | 
+----------------+----------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ 
| Simon Ashton   |  406,504 |  4,308,971 | 4,715,475 | 1,000,000 |      1.35% | 
| (Executive     |          |            |           |           |            | 
| Chairman)      |          |            |           |           |            | 
+----------------+----------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ 
| Graham         |  406,504 |  1,951,233 | 2,357,737 |   600,000 |      0.81% | 
| Partridge      |          |            |           |           |            | 
| (Group Finance |          |            |           |           |            | 
| & Operations   |          |            |           |           |            | 
| Director)      |          |            |           |           |            | 
+----------------+----------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ 
| Nick Hamley    |  406,504 |  1,951,233 | 2,357,737 |   400,000 |      0.54% | 
| (Group Sales & |          |            |           |           |            | 
| Marketing      |          |            |           |           |            | 
| Director)      |          |            |           |           |            | 
+----------------+----------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+ 
The Options granted to each of the Executive Directors become exercisable with 
immediate effect in respect of 20% of the total number of Ordinary Shares 
subject to the Options granted to the relevant Executive Director. Dependent on 
the achievement of certain performance criteria, the Options granted to each of 
the Executive Directors become exercisable with effect from 30 June 2011 in 
respect of 30% of the total number of Ordinary Shares subject to the Options 
granted to the relevant Executive Director and in respect of the remaining 50% 
with effect from 30 June 2012. The Options granted to the Executive Directors 
cannot be exercised any later than 14 April 2020. 
Further details of the Plans are set out in a circular published by Abbeycrest 
and circulated to Shareholders on 19 March 2010 (the "Circular"). A copy of the 
Circular is available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document 
Viewing Facility, which is situated at: The Financial Services Authority, 25 The 
North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HS. In addition, copies of the 
Circular are available for inspection at the head office of the Company at 4100 
Park Approach, Thorpe Park, Leeds LS15 8GB.  Copies of the Circular are also 
available from the Company's website at www.abbeycrest.co.uk. 
For further information, please contact: 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
| Abbeycrest plc                     |                             | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
| Simon Ashton, Executive Chairman   |        Tel: +44 (0)113 3970 | 
|                                    |                         864 | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
|                                    |        www.abbeycrest.co.uk | 
|                                    |                             | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
| Evolution Securities Limited       |         Tel: +44 (0)113 243 | 
|                                    |                        1619 | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
| Joanne Lake / Peter Steel          |       www.evosecurities.com | 
|                                    |                             | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
| Rawlings Financial PR Limited      |                             | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
| Catriona Valentine                 |        Tel: +44 (0)1653 618 | 
|                                    |                         016 | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
|                                    | www.rawlingsfinancial.co.uk | 
|                                    |                             | 
+------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ 
 
 
This information is provided by RNS 
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange 
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