Sale of Investment

Dunedin Enterprise Inv Trust PLC 07 April 2006 For Immediate Release: Friday 7 April 2006 Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust PLC completes Sale of Calsafe Group (Holdings) Ltd. Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust PLC ('Dunedin Enterprise'), the private equity investment trust which invests in UK mid-market management buyouts, announces the completion of the sale of its holding in Calsafe Group (Holdings) Ltd ('Calsafe') to Champion Enterprises Inc USA ('Champion') for £62 million. Calsafe operates in the UK and Europe through its subsidiary company Caledonian Building Systems Ltd ('Caledonian'). Dunedin Enterprise has received £16.5 million from the sale of Calsafe which represents an uplift of £6.6 million to Dunedin Enterprise's valuation of Calsafe at 31 October 2005. This equates to 22p per ordinary share. Dunedin Enterprise invested a total of £3.8 million in the management buyout of Calsafe in November 2003 and has received £20.6 million in capital and income from this investment. This represents an IRR of 104% over two and half years and a money multiple of 5.4 times the original investment. For further information, please contact: Dunedin Capital Partners Brian Scouler, Managing Director, Portfolio 0131 718 2313/07811 262 796 Binns & Co PR Limited Peter Binns 020 7786 9600 Annie Evangeli 020 7786 9600/07778 507 162 Chris Steele 020 7786 9600/07979 604 687 EDITOR'S NOTES Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust PLC Dunedin Enterprise is managed by Dunedin Capital Partners Limited. Dunedin is an independent private equity company owned by its directors and staff. The company specialises in providing equity finance for management buyouts with a transaction size of £10 - 50 million. It operates throughout the United Kingdom from its offices in Edinburgh and London. For more information on Dunedin Enterprise, its portfolio and investment approach, please visit the website www.dunedin.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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