Acquisition

Capita Group PLC 18 March 2002 18 March 2002 THE CAPITA GROUP PLC Capita expands its social care resourcing capability Acquisition of Resource Management Ltd for £7.1 million The Capita Group Plc ('Capita') has acquired the entire share capital of Resource Management Ltd ('Resource Management'), a market leader in the provision of qualified and specialist social workers, for a consideration of £7.1 million to be satisfied in cash. Resource Management focuses on the Greater London and Home Counties area providing highly specialised and experienced social workers to a range of local and central government bodies and private sector clients. Established in 1989, the business has long term relationships with many of its clients and has achieved sole and preferred provider status with many of them. The business reported pre tax profits of £0.5 million (after departing vendor's costs of £0.3 million) on revenues of £5.5 million and assets of £860,000 in the statutory accounts for the year to 31 March 2001. In recent years, Capita has identified a number of niche resourcing markets that have significant growth potential and has acquired and built up capability in these areas. These are public sector recruitment, supply teaching and specialist social services and care support. Capita first entered the social work and social care resourcing market in April 2000 with the acquisition of Social Housing Group Ltd. Since then, the business has demonstrated very strong growth. Resource Management will be integrated into this existing national Capita operation, strengthening Capita's capability in the Greater London area and providing additional specialist resources for further national growth. Rod Aldridge, Executive Chairman of the Capita Group Plc, commented: 'I am pleased to welcome the skilled consultants from Resource Management to the Group. They have built up a superb client base and a loyal, specialist candidate group that complements our existing business in this area. We already have a strong position in this market and believe that by expanding our activity through this acquisition, it will contribute strongly alongside our other niche resourcing businesses.' -Ends- For further information, please contact: The Capita Group Plc 020 7799 1525 Rod Aldridge, Executive Chairman Paul Pindar, Chief Executive Shona Nichols, Group Marketing Director Capita Press Office 020 7544 3141 Issued by Finsbury 020 7251 3801 Morgan Bone Mark Harris NOTES TO EDITORS The Capita Group Plc is a leading provider of integrated professional support service solutions. The Group's service capabilities encompass customer services, insurance services, human resource services, software services, systems and strategic support and property services delivered to both public sector and private organisations. With over 13,000 people at over 160 UK sites, Capita is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and is a FTSE 100 company with revenues in 2001 of £691 million. In November 2001 Capita was awarded the Management Today Most Admired Business Services Company Award. Other recent contract wins include: a contract worth c.£500 million over 10 years, representing the largest ever contract for Capita to date, to deliver the TV Licensing service on behalf of the BBC; the creation and administration of the new Criminal Records Bureau certification service for the Home Office; the infrastructure set up, management and development of the new national Connexions Card service for 16-19 year olds for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the administration and infrastructure transformation of Abbey National's general insurance operations. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange M

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