Two Shields Investments PLC BrandShield Update

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Two Shields Investments PLC

25 July 2019

Two Shields Investments plc

("TSI", or the "Company")

BrandShield Update

Two Shields Investments plc, the AIM-quoted investment company with a strategy to build a high quality portfolio of investments in fast growing and scalable digital and technology enabled businesses, is pleased to announce an update on BrandShield Limited ("BrandShield") the threat intelligence company that provides a solution from brand protection to online threat hunting.

Following feedback from active customers, BrandShield has upgraded its product offering to position itself clearly in the cyber security and threat intelligence industry in addition to the brand protection space. Therefore it provides "A Solution from Brand Protection to Online Threat Hunting".

BrandShield continues adding more capabilities across all platforms - websites, marketplaces, social media, paid ads and apps. BrandShield's improved product offering includes capabilities such as strong reporting creation options and constant expansion of monitoring capabilities to new marketplaces and to new social media platforms.

BrandShield covers all of the major marketplaces as well as hundreds of smaller marketplaces and covers social media platforms including the latest addition of WeChat (the Chinese social and IM network). WeChat is a multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app first released in 2011. WeChat is one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps with over 1 billion monthly active users and has been described as China's "app for everything" and a "super app" because of its wide range of functions.

BrandShield continues to win customers from a variety of sectors including the financial industry, pharmaceuticals, online, sports, entertainment and more.

Over the last 6 months BrandShield has been active at the following industry conferences: the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition and the International Trademark Association, both held in Boston, USA and more recently has participated in the Info Security Europe Conference held in London, UK.

As was announced in an RNS dated 24 April 2019 https://polaris.brighterir.com/public/blenheim_natural_resources/news/rns/story/x8jevow, TSI confirmed its intention to invest further in BrandShield as opportunities arise. TSI currently holds an 11.34 % shareholding in BrandShield.

Chairman of TSI, Andrew Lawley, said:

"It is very pleasing to see BrandShield expand its product offering to on-line threat hunting following feedback from its customer base. Being active across multiple platforms will allow BrandShield to increase its reach and penetration. We believe BrandShield to be an incredibly exciting growth opportunity that is entering a potentially highly expansive period. We look forward to further updates."

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (eu) 596/2014.

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For further information please visit https://twoshields.co.uk/ or contact:

 
                          Two Shields Investments 
 Andrew Lawley             plc                       [phone] 
                          Spark Advisory Partners 
 Neil Baldwin / Andrew     Limited 
  Emmott                   (Nominated Adviser)       [phone] 
                          Turner Pope Investments 
                           (TPI) Ltd 
 Andy Thacker              (Brokers)                 [phone] 
 
 

Notes to Editors:

Two Shields Investments plc (https://twoshields.co.uk), the AIM-quoted investment company with a strategy to build a portfolio of high-quality investments in fast growing, scalable digital and technology enabled businesses, including those in the cyber security, e-commerce services and consumer sectors. The Company has appointed an experienced Board of Directors with a proven pedigree in the origination, acquisition, development & sale of projects and creating value for shareholders. The investment mandate covers unquoted and quoted businesses, as well as direct project investment. Where appropriate the Board will apply its extensive combined experience to directly support investee businesses achieve their growth potential.

BrandShield Limited (https://www.brandshield.com), a private company, is a threat intelligence company that provides a solution from brand protection to online threat hunting. It was established by industry professionals with a goal to develop cutting-edge technology that will provide organizations with a powerful solution to protect themselves from various threats including social phishing, counterfeit sales, brand abuse and other online fraud activities. BrandShield has an increasing international blue-chip client base including Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies.

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