Results of the Tender Offer

Eckoh PLC 07 February 2007 NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND OR JAPAN Eckoh Plc ('Eckoh' or the 'Company') Results of the Tender Offer 1. Background to Tender Offer On 16 January 2007 the Company announced that it proposed to return up to approximately £7 million of cash to Eligible Shareholders by way of a tender offer (the 'Tender Offer'). A circular (the 'Circular') dated 16 January 2007 was posted to Shareholders containing full details of the Tender Offer and including a notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting to authorise the Company's purchase of its Ordinary Shares under the Tender Offer and to grant the Company authority to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions used in the Circular also apply in this announcement. 2. Result of Tender Offer The Board of the Company announces that pursuant to the Tender Offer, which closed at 1.00 p.m. on 6 February 2007, valid tenders for 120,570,133 Ordinary Shares were received. The Strike Price for the Tender Offer is 13 pence per Ordinary Share, which has resulted in tenders for 53,846,084 Ordinary Shares being conditionally accepted by the Company, as detailed below. The Tender Offer remains conditional on the passing of Resolution 1 at the Extraordinary General Meeting at 10.00 a.m. on 22 February 2007 and on those other matters set out in the Circular (the 'Conditions'). A further announcement will be made after the EGM. Subject to the passing of Resolution 1 and the fulfilment of the other Conditions: - valid tenders will be accepted in the following order of priority: (i) first, tenders of up to 2,000 Ordinary Shares (inclusive) submitted at or below 13 pence per Ordinary Share will be accepted in full, but only in respect of those Shareholders with a registered holding of 2,000 Ordinary Shares or less on the Record Date who tendered in respect of all the Ordinary Shares in their holding; (ii) second, tenders submitted below 13 pence per Ordinary Share will be accepted in full; and (iii) finally, all other tenders submitted at 13 pence per Ordinary Share (including Strike Price Tenders) will be accepted but will be scaled back to ensure that the aggregate consideration paid to Shareholders does not exceed £7 million. Such tenders will be scaled back pro rata at a rate of 53.628673 per cent.; - tenders submitted at prices above 13 pence per Ordinary Share will be rejected; - the purchase of successfully tendered Ordinary Shares will be effected by the Company on 22 February 2007, following which those 53,846,084 Ordinary Shares (representing approximately 22 per cent. of the existing issued share capital of the Company) will be cancelled and will not be available for re-issue; - the purchase of 53,846,084 Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Tender Offer will result in approximately £7 million of cash being returned to the Company's shareholders; - CREST accounts will be credited with the Tender Offer proceeds and cheques for payment for Ordinary Shares purchased pursuant to the Tender Offer will be despatched by 27 February 2007. 3. The EGM The EGM is being held at 10.00 a.m. on 22 February 2007 at the offices of Travers Smith, 10 Snow Hill, London EC1A 2AL to consider and, if thought fit approve: - Resolution 1 - the special resolution to approve the Company's purchase of its Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Tender Offer, which was numbered 1 in the notice of EGM set out at the end of the Circular; and - Resolution 2 - the special resolution to grant the Company further authority to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares, which was numbered 2 in the notice of EGM set out at the end of the Circular. Shareholders will have received with the Circular a Form of Proxy for use in connection with the EGM. Whether or not a Shareholder intends to be present at the EGM and whether or not a Shareholder has tendered any Ordinary Shares under the Tender Offer, Shareholders are asked to complete and return the Form of Proxy as soon as possible and, in any event, so as to be received by the Company's Registrars by not later than 10.00 a.m. on 20 February 2007. The completion and return of a Form of Proxy will not preclude Shareholders from attending the EGM and voting in person should they wish to do so. Date: 7 February 2007 For further enquiries, please contact: Eckoh plc Tel: 08701 100 700 Nik Philpot, Chief Executive Officer Adam Moloney, Group Finance Director Corporate Synergy Plc Tel: 020 7448 4400 Jerry Keen / John Prior Buchanan Communications Tel: 020 7466 5000 Mark Edwards / Jeremy Garcia This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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