Stmnt re Board Change

365 Corporation PLC 3 April 2001 Tuesday 3 April 2001 365 Corporation plc Management Re-organisation at 365 Corporation plc The Board of 365 Corporation plc announces that Dan Thompson has expressed his intention to stand down as Chief Executive Officer by the end of June 2001. Thereafter it is intended that he will continue to act as a freelance consultant and advisor to the Board. Arrangements to appoint a successor are underway and an announcement will be made in due course. With immediate effect Martin Turner, currently Finance Director and responsible for 365's Business Division, is appointed Deputy Chief Executive, and Nik Philpot, currently responsible for the Consumer Telecoms business, is appointed Group Managing Director of 365's Consumer Division. He is currently overseeing the launch of 365's new Voice Portal. Ian Martin, Chairman of 365 Corporation plc, said: 'Dan Thompson was one of the founders of 365 in 1997 and led the flotation on the London Stock Exchange in December 1999. He has made an outstanding contribution to building the company to its present size and establishing its reputation. Dan leaves the business in good shape, focused on a clear path towards profitability.' Enquiries: 365 Corporation plc Ian Martin, Chairman Tel: 020 8576 6002 Dan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer Tel: 020 7505 7811 Martin Turner, Finance Director Tel: 020 7505 7811 www.365corp.com Cazenove & Co. Tel: 020 7588 2828 Nick Garrett David Berks Financial Dynamics Tel: 020 7831 3113 Giles Sanderson Ben Atwell Notes To Editors: 365 Corporation plc (www.365corp.com) Consumer Division 365's consumer division provides high quality digital content across three different categories - lifestyle, sport and entertainment. Each of these in turn, have several different content services, which are accessible to consumers on a multi platform basis (Internet, mobile phone, fixed line, TV, PDA etc). Sport Football - www.football365.com (English), www.futbol365.com (Spanish), www.soccer365.com (North American soccer biased content), international.football365.com - a dedicated service, covering international football. Cricket - www.cricketline.com (a leading site for International cricket), www.cricinfo365.com (daily e-mail publication in joint venture with CricInfo). Rugby - www.planet-rugby.com, a market leading online rugby resource including breaking news and unique statistics, www.rugby365.com (produced in four language versions - English, French, Spanish, Afrikaans), www.rugbyrugby.com (North American rugby website). Racetips - www.racetips365.com, a site dedicated to Horse Racing giving the inside track on news, form and the horses to follow). Formula 1 - www.planet-f1.com (English) www.francais planet-f1.com (French), www.deutsch.planet-f1.com (Dutch), www.espanol.planet-f1.com, (Spanish),italiano.planet-f1.com (Italian), website featuring news, features and a searchable archive of every race in F1 history. Sports Overview - www.sportszine.co.uk - complete guide to sport on the Internet through a searchable database of over 40,000 individually reviewed websites, www.sportonair.com - UK's first dedicated sports audio website with hourly news, features and interviews, www.livesport.com - multi-sport website. Entertainment Music - www.music365.com (English), www.music365.fr (French).- reviews of albums and singles, interviews with artists and personalities and topical stories, on-line chat forum, on-line shopping facilities for concert tickets, CDs and videos. Competitions - www.win365.co.uk - a cross-platform competition based product. Games - www.trivia365.com - a network of live, multiplayer trivia games where users can compete in real time against anyone else in the world on a variety of topics including television, education, history, entertainment and sport and win prizes. 365Television - www365television.com, the first production, a documentary on boxer Mike Tyson's UK fight, was commissioned by BBC Choice and recently aired on BBC Choice and BBC2. Lifestyle Companionship - www.personals365.com, an on-line companionship product, www.theswitch.co.uk, a multi-platform product using the web and telephone for chat. Future - www.future365.com - a site dedicated to covering the past, present and future Gardening - www.gardening365.com Gay - www.gay365.com Advisory services - telephone-based services to users. 365 provides telephone lines and systems and Infogenie procures the advisory services, currently for legal services and veterinary services. Business Division (www.symphony.com) 365 acquired its Business Division as part of the purchase of Symphony Telecommunications plc (Symphony Telecom) in February 1999. Its focus is to act as a 'one-stop-shop' and single point of contact for all of its customers' communications requirements. Increasingly, this includes the provision of internet-related applications and solutions. www.business365.co.uk - designed to give SME's within the UK quick and easy access to the facts and communication services they need to help run their business. Business365 draws on Symphony's resources to provide independent, interactive business solutions. Telephone systems - 365 sells and maintains a range of telephone systems and related solutions. Fixed-line resale - 365 provides branded fixed line telecommunications services and choses to route traffic over a selection of blue chip carriers including Energis and Viatel. It also provides non-geographic numbers (premium, national and local rates) and routes ISDN traffic Mobiles - 365 sells mobile handsets, airtime and ongoing support to SME's via the Cellnet or Vodafone mobile networks. Internet services - 365's internet products include network access devices, ISDN-2-dial-up, web hosting and web design services.

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