Appointment

Babcock International Group PLC
2 May 2002


Date:                2nd May 2002

Contact:             Gordon Campbell, Executive Chairman

                     Babcock International Group PLC

                     Telephone: [phone]

                     Ginny Pulbrook

                     Citigate Dewe Rogerson

                     Telephone: [phone]

                     Babcock International Group PLC

                     Non-Executive Directors: Changes



Babcock International Group PLC announces that Mr John Rennocks has agreed to
become a non-executive director of the Company and will be taking up his
appointment on 13 June 2002. He will chair the Company's Audit Committee. Mr
Rennocks was, until last year, the Finance Director of Corus Group PLC and is
currently non-executive Chairman of K S Biomedix PLC and Deputy Chairman of
Inmarsat Ventures plc. He also holds several other non-executive positions.

The Company also announces that, having served as a non-executive director of
the Company since 1993, Mr Alan Wheatley will retire from the Board at the
Company's Annual General Meeting in July.

                                     -ENDS-



Notes to editors:

About Babcock International Group PLC

Babcock International Group PLC is a support services business with focused
activities in defence training and international engineering. Sales in the six
months to 30 September 2001 were £227 million.

The Group operates from three principal divisions: BES (engineering and support
services in defence, rail, marine and secure facilities sectors), HDS (support
services and facilities management for the defence sector) and BMH (material
processing technologies and engineered systems). The Group is currently in the
process of disposing of the BMH division as part of Babcock's strategy to focus
on the support services market and, in the process, enhance shareholder value.

Babcock's head office is in London and the Company's shares are quoted on the
London Stock Exchange. For further information, please visit Babcock's website
at www.babcock.co.uk.





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