Trading Statement

Keller Group PLC
06 January 2006


For immediate release                                    Friday, 6 January 2006

                                Keller Group plc

                            Year End Trading Update

Keller Group plc ('Keller' or 'the Group'), the international ground engineering
specialist,  today  announces a trading  update for its financial  year ended 31
December 2005.

Since  reporting in October that 2005 would be an  outstanding  year for Keller,
the Group as a whole has continued to perform strongly in the final quarter.

The  US  businesses  have  maintained  their  exceptional  performance  and  the
integration  of  Donaldson,  the $10.5m  (£6.0m)  US  acquisition  announced  in
October,  is  proceeding  well.  In the UK,  Makers has  continued to experience
delays in getting work onto site which have  thwarted  the expected  second-half
improvement.  However, the business has ended the year with a strong order book.
Elsewhere,  the Group  has  continued  to  perform  in line  with  expectations.
Accordingly,  the Board expects  Keller's  results for the year to be around the
top end of the range of market expectations.

The Group enters 2006 with a record order book, representing about five months'
sales.

Keller intends to announce its preliminary results on Monday, 6 March 2006.

Justin Atkinson, Keller Chief Executive, commented:

'2005 has been an outstanding year for Keller and we enter 2006 in good shape.'

For further information, please contact:

Keller Group plc
Justin Atkinson, Chief Executive                       020 8341 6424
James Hind, Finance Director

Smithfield                                             020 7360 4900
Reg Hoare/Sarah Richardson




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