Press Release

13 October 2014

Versarien plc

("Versarien" or the "Company")

Exercise of Share Options

Versarien (AIM: VRS), the advanced engineering materials group, is pleased to announce that following the exercise of employee options, the Company has issued and allotted 110,150 new ordinary shares.

Accordingly, application has been made for the 110,150 new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that admission will take place on 17 October 2014.

The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing shares of the Company.  Following this allotment, the total issued share capital of the Company will increase to 105,521,364 ordinary shares.

For further information:

Versarien Plc


Neill Ricketts, Chief Executive Officer

Tel: +44 (0) 1594 888 622

Chris Leigh, Chief Financial Officer

www.versarien.com

Charles Stanley Securities

(Nominated Adviser and Broker)


Mark Taylor / Russell Cook

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7149 6000

Media enquiries:

Abchurch Communications Limited


Jamie Hooper / Alistair de Kare-Silver

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7719


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