Further Placing

Mercury Group PLC
04 February 2005





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                    4 February 2005


                                Mercury Group PLC
                          ('Mercury' or 'the Company')

                                 Further placing

On 3 December 2004 the Company announced that it had itself placed 76,000,000
new ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the capital of the Company ('Ordinary
Shares') with a small number of investors at a price of 0.5p per Ordinary Share,
pursuant to which the Company received gross proceeds of £380,000 (the
'Placing'). Further to the Placing, the Company today announces that it has
completed the placing of a further 4,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at a price of
0.5p per Ordinary Share pursuant to which the Company has received gross
proceeds of £20,000 ('Additional Placing Shares'). Application will be made for
the Additional Placing Shares to be admitted to trading in AIM.

ENDS

Enquiries:
Alex Moss
Mercury Group plc
Tel: [phone]

Michael Cornish
Beaumont Cornish Limited
Tel: [phone]





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