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Benchmark Holdings PLC

02 October 2018

2 October 2018

Benchmark Holdings plc

("Benchmark" or the "Company")

Appointment of Chief Scientific Officer

Benchmark Holdings plc (AIM: BMK), the aquaculture health, advanced nutrition, and genetics business, is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement on 2 July 2018 of the appointment of Dr Alex Raeber as Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Raeber has now joined the board and commenced his role at the Company.

Malcolm Pye, Chief Executive of Benchmark, said:

"I am delighted that Alex has now joined Benchmark as Chief Scientific Officer. I very much look forward to working closely with him in the next stage of our exciting development."

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    For further information, please contact: 
   Benchmark Holdings plc                     Tel: 020 7920 3150 
   Malcolm Pye, CEO 
   Ivonne Cantu, Investor Relations 
   Rachel Aninakwah, Communications 
 
 
    Numis                                      Tel: 020 7260 1000 
   Michael Meade / Freddie Barnfield (NOMAD) 
   James Black (Corporate Broking) 
 
 
    MHP                                        Tel: 020 3128 8742 
   Katie Hunt / Reg Hoare /Alistair de        benchmark@mhpc.com 
    Kare-Silver

Notes to Editors:

Benchmark challenges the status quo in aquaculture. Since 2000, Benchmark has consistently worked to build a technology-rich platform in the areas of genetics, advanced nutrition, animal health and knowledge services, to serve its customers, helping them take control of their biological environment to improve yield and efficiency in a sustainable way.

The Company has leading positions in its core markets and established R&D, manufacturing and distribution capabilities to serve all the major aquaculture markets. Benchmark operates in 27 countries in five continents and as at 31 March 2018, it employed 1028 people.

For further information on Benchmark please visit www.benchmarkplc.com / @WeAreBenchmark

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