5 April 2017

MINOAN GROUP PLC

("Minoan")

Share Issue/Options

Share Issue

Minoan is issuing, subject to admission on AIM, 4,482,000 Ordinary Shares of 1p each at 10.32p and 3,424,500 Ordinary Shares of 1p each at 10.59p  (new Ordinary Shares) to settle certain existing liabilities. Application has been made for the 7,906,500 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will be effective from 10 April 2017.

The new Ordinary Shares are issued under the authorities in existence at the close of Minoan's last Annual General Meeting held on 25 April 2016. Following Admission, there will be a total of 205,257,468 Ordinary Shares in issue. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Minoan under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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