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MITIE Group PLC 16 March 2004 MITIE Group PLC ('MITIE') £90m increase in contract with Land Securities Trillium for the Department for Work and Pensions and £20m facilities contract with Nissan Land Securities Trillium Support Services group MITIE has added £90m to its long term order book by signing an enlarged partnering deal with total property outsourcing specialists Land Securities Trillium ('LST'), part of Land Securities Group PLC. The contract is now worth in excess of £200m. Under the terms of the new contract MITIE will provide a range of facilities services to the former Employment Services portfolio across Northern England and Scotland, adding some 430 buildings to the Department for Work and Pensions portfolio already under contract. The contract sees the arrangements for the enlarged portfolio extend to the year 2018 and provides efficiency savings that directly benefit the Department for Work and Pensions. Commenting on this MITIE Director Colin Hale said 'We are delighted to extend the scope and duration of our long term partnering arrangements with LST, alongside our work for them on their BBC and Landflex portfolios'. Paul Roberts, Commercial Director for LST, said 'Extending our contract with MITIE has given us greater scope to achieve continuous improvement through innovation within the framework of a long term partnership. MITIE is one of our key supplier partners'. Nissan The contract with Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK Ltd is a full facilities contract at its Sunderland plant. The contract covers cleaning, waste management, security and maintenance, with service partner Eurest (part of Compass Group PLC) providing catering and vending services. It is a three year contract worth approximately £20m. The MITIE team comprises some 200 staff and works closely with a range of specialist sub-contract companies to deliver the full range of facilities management services. The site, some 750 acres in area, with a perimeter over six miles long, is home to a manufacturing facility of 3,500,000 square feet producing Nissan's Micra, Almera and Primera models for the UK and Continental markets. In total, around 300,000 vehicles are produced per annum - 1 in 5 of all cars produced in the UK. The contract was mobilised in January 2004 and Nissan's General Manager of European Procurement, Barry Wilmer, stated: 'I would like to thank MITIE, specifically their team at Nissan, for the very professional and efficient manner in which the FM project has been implemented. It was accomplished under a very tight and aggressive timescale and we are very pleased with the progress to date'. 16 March 2004 For more information please contact: Ian Stewart John Telling Chief Executive Head of Corporate Affairs MITIE Group PLC MITIE Group PLC The Stable Block 22 Shand Street Barley Wood London Wrington SE1 2ES Bristol BS40 5SA Tel: 01934 862006 Tel: 020 7407 0094 Mob: 07979 701002 Mob: 07979 701006 MITIE Group PLC •MITIE services, maintains and improves buildings and infrastructure for a wide range of private and public sector customers. •Our people are motivated to succeed by our unique share ownership culture and by the opportunities that are available to them. •When MITIE people take responsibility, our customers can be certain that the work of our 28,000 employees is not done until our customers' goals have been achieved. •Our services include Engineering Maintenance, Cleaning, Catering, Security, Pest Control, Engineering Services, Property Services, Access Systems and Managed Services. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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