Director/PDMR Shareholding

Matchtech Group PLC
31 January 2007

MATCHTECH GROUP ('the Company')

31 January 2007

The Matchtech Group plc Share Incentive Plan ('SIP')

The Company announces that further to transactions on 30 January 2007, of 736
ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ('Shares') to Matchtech Engineering
Limited ('the Trustee'), at a price of £3.80 pence per Share, for the purpose of
satisfying the purchase of Shares by eligible employees (including executive
directors) under the SIP for the current month. The SIP has been approved by the
Inland Revenue as a share incentive plan under Schedule 8 to the Finance Act
2000.

Additionally, the Company has allotted a further 736 new Shares to employees
(including executive directors) as awards under the share matching element of
the SIP.

Following this transaction the Trustee will hold 66,916 Shares, all of which are
held on behalf of eligible employees pursuant to the terms of the SIP.

The beneficial ownership of the shares awarded under the matching element of the
SIP will pass to Paul Raine, Tony Dyer and Adrian Gunn in three years time
subject to continued employment and the retention of the underlying shares
purchased on their behalf.

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