The issued share capital is 73,657,416 Ordinary Shares and 53,657,416 Deferred Shares.
Ordinary shares are traded on the sharemark exchange.

Directors' Ordinary shareholdings are:
P M Grasske      472,000     0.64%
S M Blank         200,000     0.27%

Thus 0.91% of the company's shares are under the control of the Directors and 99.09% are in public hands. There are three substantial shareholders (shareholding greater than 10%).

Details of significant shareholders (shareholding greater than 3%) are given below.

On 17th November 2009, significant shareholdings (excluding pooled client accounts) were:

Northwest Business Investment Scheme	12,665,000	17.2%
Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd.	8,097,067	10.99%
David Winton Harding	7,350,000	9.98%
Seighford Investments Ltd.	5,133,815	7.0%
James Leek	4,698,175	6.4%
A J Eccles	2,287,382	3.12%