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ROBERT DYAS HOLDINGS LIMITED
Cleeve Court
Cleeve Road
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 7SD

Registered No. 4041884

RIVERDANCE ACQUISITION LIMITED
c/o Weil, Gotshal & Manges
One South Place
London
EC2M 2WG

Registered No. 5042889


23 March 2004

Recommended cash offer by Riverdance Acquisition Limited for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Robert Dyas Holdings Limited (the “Offer”) pursuant to an offer document despatched to the shareholders of Robert Dyas on 27 February 2004 (the “Offer Document”)

Offer Declared unconditional in all respects

We have the pleasure of announcing that, as at 3.00 p.m. on Friday 19 March 2004, (the latest date for valid acceptances of the Offer), valid acceptances have been received in respect of 12,654,986 Robert Dyas Shares, representing 100 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

Accordingly, we hereby declare the Offer unconditional in all respects.

The Offer remains subject to the terms and conditions set out in the Offer Document. Terms in the Offer Document have the same meaning in this announcement save where the context otherwise requires.

If you have any queries on this announcement, please contact John Rowland on 01372 367543.

Yours faithfully

Roger Pedder
Robert Dyas Holdings Limited
Steven Petrow
Riverdance Acquisition Limited

www.robertdyas.co.uk


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