Notice of Results

4 May 2007 PayPoint plc - Notice of Results PayPoint plc advises that it will make its Preliminary Results announcement for the year ended 25 March 2007 on Thursday, 17 May 2007. Enquiries Finsbury Group 020 7251 3801 Rollo Head Don Hunter About PayPoint PayPoint is the UK's and Ireland's leading cash and internet payments company, handling over £4 billion in over 360 million payments annually for over 5,000 clients and merchants. The company operates with several significant payment streams: * The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 17,500 terminals located in local shops (including Co-ops, Spar, Costcutter, NISA-Today's, Londis and thousands of independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle cash bill payments, mobile phone top-ups, transport tickets, London Congestion Charges, BBC TV licences and a wide variety of other payment types for all of the leading utilities, telecoms suppliers and many consumer service companies. This network is used by consumers, free of charge, over 7 million times a week. The network has 97.3% population cover on a 1 mile urban or 5 miles rural measure; * Additional multiple retailer connections into the electronic till systems (EPoS) of 3,000 outlets including BP, Somerfield and Superdrug for mobile top ups and selected payments from the PayPoint range; * The PayPoint ATM network has 1850 'LINK'-branded machines across the UK, also typically in convenience stores. These machines levy a small convenience fee for each withdrawal; and * PayPoint Internet Payment Services, trading as Metacharge and SECPay, provides secure credit and debit card payments for over 4,000 web merchants linking into all the major UK acquiring banks. PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004 and was the Financial Times 'New Company of the Year'. The company has a market capitalisation of c. £375 million. In year ended March 2006, revenue was £120 million with profit before tax of £20 million. PayPoint has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise and is widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems, smart technology and consumer service. ---END OF MESSAGE---

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