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RNS Number : 3965U 
Mount Engineering PLC 
14 October 2010 
 

                              MOUNT ENGINEERING PLC 
              ("Mount Engineering", "Mount" or the "Mount Group") 
 
                                  Offer Update 
 
The Board of Mount has noted today's announcement by Redhall Group plc 
("Redhall") confirming that its offer has lapsed with effect from 13 October 
2010, that its offer is no longer capable of acceptance and that any Mount 
Shareholders who have accepted their offer will cease to be bound by their 
acceptances. 
 
As previously announced, under the terms of the irrevocable undertakings given 
to Redhall, the Mount Directors had accepted the Redhall offer in respect of 
their entire beneficial holdings of 2,086,000 Mount shares and these acceptances 
could not be withdrawn other than in the event of the Redhall Offer lapsing or 
being withdrawn.  Following Redhall's announcement, the Mount Directors are no 
longer bound by these undertakings. 
 
The Mount Directors re-iterate their recommendation of the Cooper Controls Offer 
and confirm that they intend to accept the Cooper Controls Offer in respect of 
their entire beneficial holdings of 2,086,000 Mount Shares, representing, in 
aggregate, approximately 8.89 per cent. of the existing issued share capital of 
Mount (excluding Treasury Shares). 
 
For further information contact: 
 
Mount Engineering plc 
 
Alan McClue           (Chairman)                          07791 546798 
 
David Stanham       (Chief Executive)                  07834 046121 
 
Nominated Adviser & Financial Adviser 
Charles Stanley Securities                                   0207 149 6000 
 
Mark Taylor / Marc Milmo / Carl Holmes 
 
 
Disclosure Requirements of the Code 
 
Charles Stanley Securities, a trading division of Charles Stanley & Co. Limited, 
which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the FSA, is acting 
exclusively for Mount and no one else in connection with the Offer, the contents 
of this announcement, the Offer Document or the Form of Acceptance and will not 
be responsible for anyone other than Mount for providing the protections 
afforded to customers of Charles Stanley, nor for providing advice in relation 
to the Offer, the contents of this announcement, the Offer Document or the Form 
of Acceptance. 
 
This announcement may contain "forward-looking statements" concerning the Mount 
and/or Cooper and/or the Enlarged Group. All statements other than statements of 
historical fact included in this document may be forward-looking statements. 
Without limitation, any statements preceded or followed by or that include the 
words "will", "may", "targets", "plans", "continue", "believes", "expects", 
"intends", "anticipates", "aims", "estimates" or words or terms of similar 
substance or the negative thereof identify forward-looking statements. Forward 
looking statements include statements relating to the following: (i) future 
capital expenditures, expenses, revenues, earnings, synergies, economic 
performance, indebtedness, financial condition, dividend policy, losses and 
future prospects; (ii) business and management strategies and the expansion and 
growth of Cooper, or the Enlarged Group's operations; and (iii) the effects of 
government regulation on Mount or the Enlarged Group's business. 
 
These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. They 
have not been reviewed by the auditors of Mount or of Cooper. These 
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and 
other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of any 
such person, or industry results, to be materially different from any results, 
performance or achievements expressed or implied to differ materially from those 
expressed in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements 
are based on numerous assumptions regarding the present and future business 
strategies of such persons and the environment in which each will operate in the 
future. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking 
statements, which speak only as of the date they were made. All subsequent oral 
or written forward looking statements attributable to the Mount or Cooper or any 
of their members or any persons acting on their behalf are expressly qualified 
in their entirety by the cautionary statement above. All forward-looking 
statements included in this document are based on information available to the 
relevant parties on the date of this document. Investors should not place undue 
reliance on forward-looking statements, and neither Mount, Cooper nor any 
members of their respective Group, directors undertake any obligation in respect 
of, and do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements, except 
as required by the City Code, Disclosure and Transparency Rules, AIM Rules 
and/or pursuant to any other applicable law. 
 
Under Rule 8.3(a) of the Code, any person who is interested in 1% or more of any 
class of relevant securities of an offeree company or of any paper offeror 
(being any offeror other than an offeror in respect of which it has been 
announced that its offer is, or is likely to be, solely in cash) must make an 
Opening Position Disclosure following the commencement of the offer period and, 
if later, following the announcement in which any paper offeror is first 
identified. An Opening Position Disclosure must contain details of the person's 
interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant 
securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any paper offeror(s). An 
Opening Position Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(a) applies must be made 
by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the 10th business day following the 
commencement of the offer period and, if appropriate, by no later than 3.30 pm 
(London time) on the 10th business day following the announcement in which any 
paper offeror is first identified. Relevant persons who deal in the relevant 
securities of the offeree company or of a paper offeror prior to the deadline 
for making an Opening Position Disclosure must instead make a Dealing 
Disclosure. 
 
Under Rule 8.3(b) of the Code, any person who is, or becomes, interested in 1% 
or more of any class of relevant securities of the offeree company or of any 
paper offeror must make a Dealing Disclosure if the person deals in any relevant 
securities of the offeree company or of any paper offeror. A Dealing Disclosure 
must contain details of the dealing concerned and of the person's interests and 
short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each 
of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any paper offeror, save to the extent that 
these details have previously been disclosed under Rule 8. A Dealing Disclosure 
by a person to whom Rule 8.3(b) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 pm 
(London time) on the business day following the date of the relevant dealing. 
 
If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, 
whether formal or informal, to acquire or control an interest in relevant 
securities of an offeree company or a paper offeror, they will be deemed to be a 
single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.2. Opening Position Disclosures must 
also be made by the offeree company and by any offeror and Dealing Disclosures 
must also be made by the offeree company, by any offeror and by any persons 
acting in concert with any of them (see Rules 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4). 
 
Details of the offeree and offeror companies in respect of whose relevant 
securities Opening Position Disclosures and Dealing Disclosures must be made can 
be found in the Disclosure Table on the Takeover Panel's website at 
www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk, including details of the number of relevant 
securities in issue, when the offer period commenced and when any offeror was 
first identified. If you are in any doubt as to whether you are required to make 
an Opening Position Disclosure or a Dealing Disclosure, you should contact the 
Panel's Market Surveillance Unit on +44 (0)20 7638 0129. 
 
The Mount Directors accept responsibility for the information contained in this 
announcement, save that the only responsibility accepted by them in respect of 
the information in this announcement relating to Mount, which has been compiled 
from published sources, is to ensure that such information has been correctly 
and fairly reproduced and presented. To the best of the knowledge and belief of 
the Mount Directors (who have taken all reasonable care to ensure that such is 
the case), the information contained in this announcement for which they accept 
responsibility is in accordance with the facts and does not omit anything likely 
to affect the import of such information. 
 
 
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