NEWRIVER REIT PLC

Director's Dealing • Jul 3, 2015

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NewRiver Retail Limited

03 July 2015

NewRiver Retail Limited

("NewRiver" or the "Company")

Notification of a transaction by a director

On 3 July 2015, the Company was advised that David Lockhart had transferred 90,000 ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") between his SIPP wrappers, thereby triggering a change in registered holder for those shares. The transfer was facilitated on 2 July 2015 by selling the shares at £3.10 per share, being the closing market price, from one SIPP wrapper to the other SIPP wrapper.

Following this transaction, Mr Lockhart's beneficial shareholding in the Company remains unchanged at 1,680,000 Ordinary Shares, being 1.30% of the total voting rights in the Company.

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NewRiver Retail Limited David Lockhart, Chief Executive Mark Davies, Finance Director	Tel: 020 3328 5800
Bell Pottinger David Rydell / James Newman / David Bass	Tel: 020 3772 2500
Liberum Richard Crawley / Jamie Richards	Tel: 020 3100 2000
Peel Hunt LLP Capel Irwin / Alex Vaughan / Hugh Preston	Tel: 020 7418 8900

About NewRiver

NewRiver Retail Limited is an AIM listed REIT. The Company is a specialist real estate investor and asset manager focused solely on UK retail with a particular focus on food and value retailing. NewRiver Retail was named Property Company of the Year - Retail & Leisure at the Estates Gazette Awards at the close of 2014.

The management team, with over 100 years combined experience in the UK commercial property market, actively engages with retailers, stakeholders and consumers. NewRiver Retail is one of the UK's largest shopping centre owner/managers with assets under management of £848 million principally comprising 29 UK wide shopping centres, further nationwide retail assets and a portfolio of 202 public houses principally suitable for conversion to alternative uses. The portfolio has 1,377 occupiers, a total of over 5.5 million sq ft, total annual footfall of over 121 million and a retail occupancy rate of 96 per cent.

The Company's activities include active and entrepreneurial asset management and risk-controlled development, utilising both its own balance sheet and co-investment joint venture structures.

Founded in 2009, NewRiver has become the UK's leading retail-focused property investment business. The Company's shares were admitted to London's AIM in September of the same year. For more information on NewRiver, please visit www.nrr.co.uk .

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