Arden Partners plc ("Arden" or the "Company") 

EBT Purchase 

The Company was notified by the trustees of Arden Partners Employee Benefit Trust Limited (the "Trust") that the Trust today purchased 200,000 ordinary shares at a price of 101.5 pence per ordinary share. As a result, the holding of the Trust in the Company is 671,600 ordinary shares, representing 2.7 per cent of the Company's issued ordinary shares.