Result of Open Offer

Mercury Group PLC
11 January 2007


                                                                 11 January 2007

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

                              Result of Open Offer

The Company announces that as at the closing of the Open Offer at 3.00 p.m. on 9
January 2007 applications had been received from 217 shareholders (of which 85
made excess applications) as follows:

                                                     No. of Offer            £
                                                         Shares

Complete entitlements applied for                     8,085,180        606,388

Incomplete entitlements applied for subject to
money laundering                                      2,634,799        197,610
                                                 --------------   ------------
Total entitlements applied for                       10,719,979        803,998

Total Excess applications made                        4,988,874        374,166
                                                 --------------   ------------
Total Offer Shares applied for                       15,708,853      1,178,164
                                                 ==============    ===========

The total Offer Shares applied for represents 78.54 per cent. of the total Open
Offer Shares available under the Open Offer.

The Open Offer remains conditional, inter alia, upon the passing of certain of
the resolutions to be proposed at the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held
later today and Admission to trading on AIM.



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