Falkland Islands Holdings PLC
11 April 2006
Falkland Islands Holdings Plc
Employee Share Scheme matures
New shares issued
For immediate release
11 April 2006
Falkland Islands Holdings Plc ('FIH') announces that its Save As You Earn
('SAYE') share incentive scheme matured on 31 March 2006, giving participating
employees the choice of receiving cash saved or applying the cash to exercise
share options and receiving new FIH shares.
Elections have now been received from all participants in the scheme and 81,972
new FIH shares have been issued.
The subscriptions were exercised at 175p per FIH share.
The new FIH shares referred to above include 5,400 FIH shares issued to David
Hudd, the chairman of FIH, which were announced on 5 April 2006.
Following the issue of 81,972 new FIH shares, there are 8,461,452 FIH shares in
issue.
Application has been made to London Stock Exchange Plc for the admission of the
new FIH shares to trading on AIM.
Enquiries:
Falkland Islands Holdings Plc
John Foster, Managing Director Tel: 01279 461 630
Dawnay, Day Corporate Finance Ltd
David Floyd Tel: 020 7509 4570
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