Acquisition

Delling Group PLC 30 July 2007 For Release 7:00am 30 July 2007 DELLING GROUP PLC (DLG.L) The AIM-listed marketing support services group Acquisition of Company in Sweden Delling Group PLC ('Delling' or the 'Company'), the only listed marketing support services group on AIM whose principal assets are in Scandinavia, announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire the business of Dekorateljen AB ('Ateljen'), a privately owned company, with completion scheduled for 1 September 2007, for a cash consideration of approximately £0.2 million. Ateljen has an annual turnover of approximately £0.5 million. The consideration payable of approximately £0.2 million is equivalent to approximately 4 times Ateljen's average pre-tax profit over its last 3 financial years. 60 % of the consideration will be paid on completion and 40 % will be paid 14 months after completion subject to certain agreed targets. Ateljens's employees will be integrated into Delling's main office in Stockholm, and will be a part of the exhibition business area. The integration will create cost benefits and synergies from September 2007. The customer base of Ateljen includes some of the leading trade unions in Sweden. The Directors believe that there is a great potential for further developing Ateljens customer base. The acquisition is also expected to help to improve our ability to support further strong growth with our existing and new customers. Commenting, Aksel Bratvedt, Executive Chairman, Delling Group, said: 'This in-fill acquisition fits into our business and should have a positive impact on our revenues going forward. We continue to increase market share in this sector. We are now steadily seeing the positive effects on the growing economy in Scandinavia and at the same time taking a larger market share. As we now are in a period where our main focus is to improve our margins we intend only to do small fill-in acquisitions which are expected to rapidly improve our margins and enable us to reduce costs .As previously announced I firmly believe that this work will now begin to have a substantial impact on our overall performance.' For further information please contact: Delling Group Plc Aksel Bratvedt, Chairman Tel: 020 7484 5663 www.dellinggroup.com Adventis Financial PR Tarquin Edwards / Chris Steele Tel: 020 7034 4758 / 9 Seymour Pierce Nicola Marrin Tel: 020 7107 8000 Notes to Editors Delling Group is a leading supplier of marketing support services for marketing and communication departments throughout The Nordic countries. Delling manages all fields of graphic support in many different forms and formats including trade fairs, exhibitions and interactive digital solutions for the web, mobile telephone marketing solutions, motion media for flat screens, plasma or LCD. It also supplies IT solutions which support and increase the efficiency of both marketing and information departments. However, its major strength is that the Group can deliver complete turnkey solutions, tailor-made for its customers' every need. Delling also offers outsourcing solutions that can substantially save costs and improve efficiency. The Group's major activities are today concentrated in the Norwegian and Swedish markets, however, it is quickly expanding into other Nordic areas, as well as having customers and production facilities in Eastern Europe. It also has well respected suppliers as far a field as China and Thailand. Delling Group has today 130 employees. It is rapidly developing its organisation by focusing on supplying its customers with the quality they demand, delivered on time at the right price. Central to its philosophy lies the fact that its customers will obtain greater effects and efficiency for every pound they invest in marketing and information. The Group has strong growth, both through further development of existing clients and establishment of many new relationships, together with acquiring companies that enhance and further develop our business concept. Delling's goal is within the course of the next two years, through both satisfied customers and recommendations, to be the largest and most profitable company in the field of marketing support services within the Nordic countries, and a significant player within Eastern Europe. In October 2004 it was the first Scandinavian business to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market, the London Stock Exchange's international market for smaller growing companies. This has given Delling the access it needs to capital funds needed to maintain and strengthen the further development of the Group. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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