Fire at Bookham premises

Photo-Me International PLC
22 December 2004



                           PHOTO-ME INTERNATIONAL PLC

                            Fire at Bookham Premises

PMI, the digital imaging company, announces that a fire last night destroyed a
former factory building at Bookham, Surrey, used by approximately 50 maintenance
and support personnel and to store equipment and stocks. There was nobody in the
building at the time. PMI's adjacent Head Office is unaffected, apart from by a
temporary loss of power.

The Company is still evaluating the full impact of this incident. However, the
operation of PMI's UK Vending business (with 8,200 sites, including 5,400
photobooths) will suffer no interruption, PMI's Manufacturing business (being
based overseas) is substantially unaffected, and it is expected that the losses
incurred will be substantially covered by insurance.

Enquiries:

Photo-Me International plc                                       01372-453 399
Robert Lowes (Company Secretary)                                 07753-239 332

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Charles Ponsonby                                                 020-7444 4166 /
                                                                 07789-202 312




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