Pre Close Trading Update

Matchtech Group PLC
30 January 2008

30 January 2008


                              Matchtech Group plc
                         ('Matchtech' or the 'Company')
                            
                            Pre Close Trading Update


Matchtech, one of the UK's leading technical recruitment companies, will
announce its Interim Results for the six months ending 31 January 2008 on Monday
17 March 2007. Ahead of this, the Company today announces a Pre Close Trading
Update.

In the six months ending 31 January 2008 the Group has seen good growth in Net
Fee Income ('NFI') across all three operating sectors, Engineering, Built
Environment and Support Services. With the investment in our graduate
recruitment campaign, which added an additional 30 consultants at the start of
the financial year, operating performance in the first half of the financial
year has been in line with the Board's expectations.

George Materna, Chairman of Matchtech, commented: 'I am pleased to report that
we have made a good start to the year and that we are currently seeing
encouraging demand across a broad range of clients for the limited pool of
skilled resource that is available.'


For further information please contact:


Matchtech Group plc  01489 898 989                      George Materna, Chairman
                                                  Adrian Gunn, Managing Director
                                                     Tony Dyer, Finance Director


Arbuthnot Securities 020 7012 2000            Andrew Fullerton / Richard Tulloch


Hogarth Partnership  020 7357 9477   John Olsen / James Longfield / Fiona Noblet


Background on Matchtech

Matchtech specialises in the provision of contract and permanent staff in the
Engineering, Built Environment and Support Services sectors across the UK.

It was established in 1984 and has grown organically to become the UK's 4th
largest technical and engineering recruitment specialist and one of the UK's 20
largest recruitment companies (Source: Recruitment International Top 100 Report
- August 2006).

Operating from a single site near Southampton, Matchtech provides predominantly
professionally-qualified candidates to clients in a broad range of industries
including oil and petrochemicals, marine, aerospace, water, electronics, civil
engineering, building structures and transport infrastructure. It structures its
business across three main sectors: Engineering, Built Environment and Support
Services.

Matchtech Group plc floated on AIM in October 2006.



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