EXHIBIT 99.1
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Block Listing Six Monthly Return
May 23, 2014 - Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG)
Name of applicant: | Shire plc |
| Name of scheme: | 2000 Executive Share Option Scheme |
| Period of return: | From: | November 23, 2013 | To: | May 22, 2014 |
| Balance of unallotted securities under scheme(s) from previous return: | 3,427,479 |
Plus: The amount by which the block scheme(s) has been increased since the date of the last return (if any increase has been applied for): | Nil |
Less: Number of securities issued/allotted under scheme(s) during period (see LR3.5.7G): | 20,856 |
Equals: Balance under scheme(s) not yet issued/allotted at end of period: | 3,406,623 |
Name of applicant: | Shire plc |
| Name of scheme: | Shire Sharesave Scheme |
| Period of return: | From: | November 23, 2013 | To: | May 22, 2014 |
| Balance of unallotted securities under scheme(s) from previous return: | 210,392 |
Plus: The amount by which the block scheme(s) has been increased since the date of the last return (if any increase has been applied for): | Nil |
Less: Number of securities issued/allotted under scheme(s) during period (see LR3.5.7G): | Nil |
Equals: Balance under scheme(s) not yet issued/allotted at end of period: | 210,392 |
Registered in Jersey, No. 99854, 22 Grenville Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8PX
Name of applicant: | Shire plc |
| Name of scheme: | Portfolio Share Plan |
| Period of return: | From: | November 23, 2013 | To: | May 22, 2014 |
| Balance of unallotted securities under scheme(s) from previous return: | 2,232,177 |
Plus: The amount by which the block scheme(s) has been increased since the date of the last return (if any increase has been applied for): | Nil |
Less: Number of securities issued/allotted under scheme(s) during period (see LR3.5.7G): | 637,918 |
Equals: Balance under scheme(s) not yet issued/allotted at end of period: | 1,594,259 |
Name of applicant: | Shire plc |
| Name of scheme: | Employee Stock Purchase Plan |
| Period of return: | From: | November 23, 2013 | To: | May 22, 2014 |
| Balance of unallotted securities under scheme(s) from previous return: | 422,301 |
Plus: The amount by which the block scheme(s) has been increased since the date of the last return (if any increase has been applied for): | Nil |
Less: Number of securities issued/allotted under scheme(s) during period (see LR3.5.7G): | Nil |
Equals: Balance under scheme(s) not yet issued/allotted at end of period: | 422,301 |
| Name of contact: | Tony Guthrie, Deputy Company Secretary |
| Address of contact: | Hampshire International Business Park Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 8EP |
| Telephone number of contact: | 01256 894746 |
For further information please contact:
| Investor Relations | | |
| Jeff Poulton | jpoulton@shire.com | +1 781 482 0945 |
| Sarah Elton-Farr | seltonfarr@shire.com | +44 1256 894157 |
| Media | | |
| Jessica Mann | jmann@shire.com | +44 1256 894 280 |
| Gwen Fisher | gfisher@shire.com | +1 484 595 9836 |
NOTES TO EDITORS
Shire enables people with life-altering conditions to lead better lives.
Our strategy is to focus on developing and marketing innovative specialty medicines to meet significant unmet patient needs.
We provide treatments in Neuroscience, Rare Diseases, Gastrointestinal, Ophthalmology and Internal Medicine and we are developing treatments for symptomatic conditions treated by specialist physicians in other targeted therapeutic areas.
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