Directorate Change

Unite Group PLC
06 March 2003

Date:              6 March 2003

On behalf of:      The UNITE Group plc ('UNITE')

Embargoed until:   12 noon



The UNITE Group plc
BOARD CHANGES



The Board of The UNITE Group plc, the UK's leading specialist provider of
accommodation services for students and key workers, is pleased to announce the
appointment, with immediate effect, of Nigel Hall as a non-executive director.


Mr. Hall was Group Finance Director of Arcadia Group plc (formerly The Burton
Group plc) until February 2003.  He joined The Burton Group in 1984 and was
appointed to the Board in 1997, becoming Group Finance Director in November of
that year.  Following the demerger of Debenhams in January 1998, the Company was
re-named Arcadia Group plc.  Mr. Hall is also chairman of BRC Trading Limited,
the trading arm of the British Retail Consortium, and is a Trustee of the
Textile Industry Children's Trust.  Mr Hall, 47, is a graduate of Cambridge
University.  He trained with Price Waterhouse in London, qualified as a
Chartered Accountant in 1980 and is now a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales.



Mr Hall replaces David Naish who retires, with effect from 25 March 2003, from
the Board after four years of service including acting as non-executive chairman
when the Company was first admitted to trading on the Alternative Investment
Market in 1999.



Commenting on the Board changes, Geoffrey Maddrell, Chairman of The UNITE Group,
said:



'We are delighted to welcome Nigel to our Board.  He brings with him a wealth of
experience of the consumer and financial markets. We are confident that he will
provide invaluable input to our Board as we continue to develop the new market
sector which we are creating in student and key worker accommodation.



On behalf of the Board, I would like to pay particularly warm tribute to David
Naish in thanking him for the significant contribution he has made to the
Company over the years and to wish him every success in the future. '



There are no further details required to be disclosed in relation to paragraph
16.4 of the Financial Services Authority Listing Rules.



Enquiries:

Nicholas Porter, Chief Executive   Tel: [phone]
UNITE Group plc


Redleaf Communications Ltd         Tel:  [phone]
Emma Kane/Katharine Sharkey



Notes to Editors:

•        UNITE was founded in 1991 by Nick Porter.

•        UNITE is fully listed on the London Stock Exchange and is currently
         capitalised at £165m.

•        UNITE is the UK's leading specialist provider of accommodation
         services for students and key workers.

•        Further is information is available from the UNITE website at
         www.unite-group.co.uk


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