SGI Stanley Gibbons Group Plc

RNS Number:4220X
Stanley Gibbons Group Limited
06 April 2004


                       The Stanley Gibbons Group Limited
                      ("Stanley Gibbons" or "the Company")
        Director's dealings, Holding(s) in Company and Grant of Options

The Company announces that, on 5 April 2004, Paul Fraser placed 3,500,000
Ordinary 1p shares at 70p each with three institutional purchasers. This takes
Mr Fraser's shareholding to 3,226,719 shares, which represents 13.25% of the
share capital of the Company.

The purchasers included Framlington and funds managed by Forum Family Office
GmbH (Forum) which is now beneficially interested in 2,500,000 Ordinary shares,
representing 10.27% of the Company's issued share capital.

Forum is a German asset management group, value based and focused on European
small cap situations. As part of the purchase arrangements Forum has informed
the Board that it is acquiring the shares as a long term investment in the
Company and has given an undertaking not to sell any shares in Stanley Gibbons
during the next three years.

Chairman Paul Fraser commented:

'I am pleased to welcome the new shareholders in The Stanley Gibbons Group
Limited. Their purchases, together with other significant institutional
purchases made since our Final Results were announced, show that the strength of
our brand name, strategy and growth prospects are now being appreciated by a
wider range of institutional investors'.

On 6 April 2004, Michael Hall, ChiefExecutive of the Company, was granted an
option over 55,405 Ordinary shares of 1p in the Company, for nil consideration,
under an Enterprise Management Incentive Option Agreement. The options are
exercisable at a price of 74p per Ordinary share between 6 April 2005 and 5
April 2014, subject to the satisfaction of a performance condition.

Save for the options referred to above, Michael Hall has an interest in 20,000
Ordinary shares and 50,000 share options granted under the Company's UK
Executive Share Option Scheme on 27 November 2000 at 18p per Ordinary share.

For further information, contact:

The Stanley Gibbons Group Limited
Paul Fraser, Chairman                                        020 7836 8444
Michael Hall, Chief Executive 01425 472363

Seymour Pierce Limited
Louise Carpenter           )                                 020 7107 8000
Jonathan Wright            )





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