Issue of Equity

Next Fifteen Communications Plc Next Fifteen Communications Group plc 26 October 2005 Additional Listing Next Fifteen Communications Group plc ("Next Fifteen" or the "Company") announces that 303,736 new ordinary shares of 2.5 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") have been allotted pursuant to the acquisitions of Bite Communications Group Limited ("Bite") and OutCast Communications (" OutCast"). Acquisition of Bite On 19 July 2005, Next Fifteen announced an offer to buy the 19.76 per cent. minority interest not already under its control in its subsidiary business Bite. Further to the Company's announcement of 11 August 2005, valid acceptances have now been received in respect of a total of 4,849,169 Bite shares, representing 19.76 per cent. of the issued share capital of Bite, and consequently the Company now has 100 per cent. control of Bite. 167,204 Ordinary Shares have been allotted as consideration for the outstanding shares in Bite not previously acquired. Acquisition of OutCast On 21 June 2005, Next Fifteen announced the acquisition of OutCast, and that under the terms of the acquisition, part of the consideration would be paid over the following five years based on the performance of the company. Further to this, 136,532 Ordinary Shares are being allotted in respect of the first performance related payment. This is for the 6 week period from the date of acquisition until the Company's financial year end of 31 July 2005. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to AIM and it is expected that admission will take place on 01 November 2005. About Next Fifteen Next Fifteen is a holding company for a number of world leading PR and marketing services firms. The majority of clients are in the technology industry with twelve of the world's top twenty technology businesses being clients of the Group; these include IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco. The Group strategy has also evolved to pursue non-technology clients and the Group already works with such brands as Royal Mail, More Th>n (Royal and Sun Alliance Group), Olympus, Total and the Department for Education and Skills. The Group is made up of five independently branded subsidiaries that operate as autonomous businesses thus enabling them to service competing client businesses. The Group has four broad technology PR subsidiaries: Text 100, Bite Communications OutCast Communications and Inferno. The fifth brand, August One, provides both B2B and Consumer services across a number of vertical market sectors. More information can be found at: www.nextfifteen.com. Enquiries: Next Fifteen Mark Sanford, Company Secretary 020 8846 0778 Bridgewell John Craven, Director 020 7003 3000
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