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Artisan (UK) PLC
31 January 2000


Not  for  release, publication or distribution in or into  the
USA, Canada, Australia or Japan.


                       Artisan (UK) plc
                               
Recommended Offer for the Entire Issued Ordinary and 'A' Share
          Capital of Investment in Heritage Group plc
                               
 Unconditional as to Acceptances for the Ordinary Share Offer

On  21  December 1999 Artisan made recommended offers for  the
entire  issued and to be issued ordinary and 'A' share capital
of Investment in Heritage Group plc ('IIH') ('the Offers')

Artisan  announces that as at 3.00pm on 31 January 2000  valid
acceptances  of the Ordinary Share Offer had been received  in
respect  of  a  total of 341,465 Ordinary Shares, representing
approximately  52.79 per cent. of the current issued  ordinary
share  capital  of  IIH.   In addition there  are  irrevocable
undertakings to accept the Ordinary Share Offer outstanding in
respect  of  a  further  10,002 Ordinary  Shares.   In  total,
Artisan  has  received  valid acceptances  of  or  outstanding
irrevocable  undertakings  for the  Ordinary  Share  Offer  in
respect of 351,467 Ordinary Shares representing 54.34 per cent
of the total issued ordinary share capital of IIH.

Of the acceptances referred to in the second paragraph of this
announcement, Artisan has received an irrevocable  undertaking
to accept the Ordinary Share Offer from Christopher Liddell, a
person  acting or deemed to be acting in concert with  Artisan
for  the  purposes of the Offers, in respect of 5,002 Ordinary
Shares.

As  at  close of business on 23 November 1999 (being the  date
immediately  prior to the commencement of the  offer  period),
Artisan  neither owned nor controlled any Ordinary  Shares  or
'A'  Shares  in IIH (unchanged as at close of business  on  31
January 2000).

The  Offers,  as contained in the Offer Document  and  in  the
accompanying Forms of Acceptance, remain open until 1.00pm  on
18 February 2000.

The  expressions used in this announcement shall,  unless  the
context  otherwise requires, bear the same respective meanings
as in the Offer Document posted by Artisan to IIH Shareholders
on 21 December 1999.

Enquiries:

Seymour Pierce                     Telephone: [phone]
Richard Feigen - Managing Director
Sarah Wharry


This  announcement has been approved by Seymour Pierce Limited
('Seymour  Pierce')  for the purposes of  Section  57  of  the
Financial Services Act 1986.

Seymour  Pierce  which  is regulated  by  The  Securities  and
Futures  Authority Limited, is acting for Artisan and  for  no
one  else  in  connection with the Offers, and Seymour  Pierce
will  not  be  responsible to anyone other  than  Artisan  for
providing protections afforded to customers of Seymour  Pierce
or for giving advice in relation to the Offers.

The  Offers  are not being and will not be made,  directly  or
indirectly, in or into, or by the use of the mails of,  or  by
any  means  or instrumentality (including, without limitation,
telephonically  or electronically) of, interstate  or  foreign
commerce  of,  or  of any facilities of a national  securities
exchange of, the USA, or in or into Canada, Australia or Japan
and  the Offers will not be capable of acceptance by any  such
use,  means, instrumentality or facilities or from within  the
USA,  Canada, Australia or Japan.  Accordingly, copies of this
announcement  are  not  being, and  must  not  be,  mailed  or
otherwise distributed, forwarded, or sent in, into or from the
USA, Canada, Australia or Japan.

The   Directors  of  Artisan  accept  responsibility  for  the
information contained in this announcement and, to the best of
their  knowledge and belief (having taken all reasonable  care
to ensure that such is the case), the information contained in
this announcement is in accordance with the facts and does not
omit anything likely to affect the import of such information.