Completion of Acquisition

Babcock International Group PLC
28 June 2007


Babcock International Group PLC
28 June 2007

                        Babcock International Group PLC

                           Completion of Acquisition


Further to the receipt of shareholder approval at an Extraordinary General
Meeting on 15 June 2007 of the proposed acquisition of Devonport Management
Limited ('DML') Babcock confirms that the consents required by the selling
shareholders from the Ministry of Defence have now been received and the
acquisition of DML has now completed.

Terms used in this Announcement have the same meaning as set out in the Circular
dated 30 May 2007.

Babcock                                            Tel:  [phone]
Peter Rogers, Chief Executive
Bill Tame, Finance Director

JPMorgan Cazenove                                  Tel:  [phone]
(Financial advisers, sponsor & broker to Babcock)
Dermot McKechnie
Andrew Truscott

Financial Dynamics                                 Tel:  [phone]
(PR for Babcock)
Andrew Lorenz
Richard Mountain


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