12 April 2018

MARSHALL MOTOR HOLDINGS PLC

('MMH' or the 'Company')

Exercise of IPO Awards, Director Shareholdings and Total Voting Rights

Marshall Motor Holdings plc, one of the UK's leading automotive retail groups, announces that on 11 April 2018 the certain directors and/or persons discharging managerial responsibilities ('PDMRs') of the Company exercised certain share options granted at the Company's IPO on 2 April 2015 ('IPO Awards') and previously disclosed in the IPO Admission Document. The IPO Awards vested on 2 April 2018 following satisfaction in full of all relevant financial performance conditions for the three year period ended 31 December 2017 attached to such IPO Awards.

As a result, the following directors and/or PDMRs were issued new ordinary shares of 64p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') as follows:

Name

Position

Number of additional Ordinary Shares*

Resultant interest in Ordinary Shares

% holding of total issued share capital of Company

Daksh Gupta

Chief Executive Officer

320,134

1,163,272

1.49

Mark Raban

Chief Financial Officer

94,855

156,581

0.20

Jamie Crowther

Operations Director

17,785

31,207

0.04

Helen Burrows

HR Director

13,339

20,050

0.03

Stephen Jones

Company Secretary

13,339

13,339

0.02

*associated tax and national insurance contribution liabilities arising in respect of the exercise of the IPO Awards have already been cash settled.

A further 13,339 new Ordinary Shares were issued pursuant to exercise of IPO Awards in respect of persons other than directors or PDMRs.

An application for admission to trading of the 472,791 new Ordinary Shares issued and allotted pursuant to the IPO Awards as set out above has today been submitted to London Stock Exchange plc and admission is expected to become effective on 17 April 2018.

Following admission of the new Ordinary Shares, the Company hereby notifies that, as at the date of this announcement, the Company's issued share capital consists of 77,865,653 Ordinary Shares, with each share carrying the right to one vote. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares in the Company with voting rights is 77,865,653. The above figure of 77,865,653 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company 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, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Details of the notifications received by the Company are set out below:

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Daksh Gupta

2

Reason for notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Executive Officer

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Marshall Motor Holdings plc

b)

LEI

213800BP3HZWHDWXAY78

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 64p each

ISIN Code: GB00BVYB2Q58

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of nil cost options under the rules of the Marshall Motor Holdings plc Performance Share Plan

c)

Currency

GBP

d)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£Nil

320,134

e)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A

f)

Date of the transaction

11 April 2018

g)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Mark Raban

2

Reason for notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Financial Officer

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Marshall Motor Holdings plc

b)

LEI

213800BP3HZWHDWXAY78

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 64p each

ISIN Code: GB00BVYB2Q58

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of nil cost options under the rules of the Marshall Motor Holdings plc Performance Share Plan

c)

Currency

GBP

d)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£Nil

94,855

e)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A

f)

Date of the transaction

11 April 2018

g)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Jamie Crowther

2

Reason for notification

a)

Position/status

Operations Director

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Marshall Motor Holdings plc

b)

LEI

213800BP3HZWHDWXAY78

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 64p each

ISIN Code: GB00BVYB2Q58

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of nil cost options under the rules of the Marshall Motor Holdings plc Performance Share Plan

c)

Currency

GBP

d)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£Nil

17,785

e)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A

f)

Date of the transaction

11 April 2018

g)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Helen Burrows

2

Reason for notification

a)

Position/status

HR Director

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Marshall Motor Holdings plc

b)

LEI

213800BP3HZWHDWXAY78

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 64p each

ISIN Code: GB00BVYB2Q58

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of nil cost options under the rules of the Marshall Motor Holdings plc Performance Share Plan

c)

Currency

GBP

d)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£Nil

13,339

e)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A

f)

Date of the transaction

11 April 2018

g)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a)

Name

Stephen Jones

2

Reason for notification

a)

Position/status

Company Secretary

b)

Initial notification /Amendment

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

Marshall Motor Holdings plc

b)

LEI

213800BP3HZWHDWXAY78

4

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

Identification code

Ordinary shares of 64p each

ISIN Code: GB00BVYB2Q58

b)

Nature of the transaction

Exercise of nil cost options under the rules of the Marshall Motor Holdings plc Performance Share Plan

c)

Currency

GBP

d)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£Nil

13,339

e)

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

- Price

N/A

f)

Date of the transaction

11 April 2018

g)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

ENDS

For further information and enquiries please contact:

Marshall Motor Holdings plc

c/o Hudson Sandler

Daksh Gupta, Chief Executive Officer

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7796 4133

Mark Raban, Chief Financial Officer

Investec Bank plc (Financial Adviser, NOMAD & Broker)

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7597 5970

Christopher Baird

David Flin

David Anderson

Hudson Sandler

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7796 4133

Nick Lyon

Bertie Berger

Notes to Editors

About Marshall Motor Holdings plc(www.mmhplc.com)

The Group's principal activities are the sale and repair of new and used vehicles through Marshall Motor Group. The Group's businesses have a total of 101 franchises covering 23 brands, operating from 84 locations across 26 counties in England. In addition, the Group operates five trade parts specialists, three used car centres, five standalone body shops and one pre delivery inspection centre.

In May 2017 the Group was recognised by the Great Place to Work Institute, being ranked the 22nd best place to work in the UK (large company category). This was the eighth year in succession that the Group has achieved Great Place to Work status.

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