Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Ilika plc

("Ilika" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options and Total Voting Rights

Ilika (AIM: IKA), the accelerated materials innovation company, announces that 3,144 options with an exercise price of 53p have been converted into ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"). The Company has today applied for admission to trading on AIM ("Admission") of those 3,144 new Ordinary Shares and Admission is expected to occur on 19 October 2015.

The new Ordinary Shares rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued Ordinary Shares.  Following this conversion the figure of 65,789,560 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 in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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