AGM Statement

Empresaria Group PLC 09 June 2005 9th June 2005 Empresaria Group plc ('Empresaria' or the 'Group') held its Annual General Meeting of the Group at 12.30pm today at which all of the resolutions set out in the Notice of the meeting were passed. Empresaria also provided the following update: Trading in the first five months of the financial year has been in line with the Board's expectations and the Board is confident about meeting investors' expectations of the Group's growth this year. As in previous years, the Group is expected to generate the majority of its profits in the second half of the year as a result of a combination of the seasonality of a number of the Group's businesses and the impact of investment start up losses incurred in the first half. The Group continues to focus on the development of its overseas operations to gain access to high growth international markets and to increase the defensive characteristics of the Group through sector and geographical diversification, with the overall objective of developing over time a broadly spread international specialist staffing company. To allow the Group greater financial flexibility to take advantage of potential identified opportunities it has gained agreement from HSBC to provide a further facility of up to £4million in term loans to fund the Group's development through acquisitions and start-ups. Increases in the Group's working capital requirements arising from organic growth will continue to be funded through the Group's flexible Invoice Discounting facility and its overdraft facility of £1.25million, which is currently unutilised. Enquiries: Empresaria 01293 649 900 Miles Hunt Nick Hall-Palmer This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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