AGM Statement

Creston PLC
28 July 2005

Date:                   28 July 2005
On behalf of:           Creston Plc (the 'Company' or 'Group')
Under embargo until     1200hrs




Creston 2005
AGM Trading Statement


Today, Don Elgie, Chief Executive of Creston Plc, the marketing services group,
said:


"I'm pleased to tell you that trading in the first quarter is comfortably ahead
of the same period last year and is in line with Directors' expectations.


"The integration of DLKW has gone very well and business performance is strong
with wins like the AA and General Motors Vectra for Europe. Even though only
acquired on 7 July, Red Door Communications has already won additional business
from its pharmaceutical clients and won the Best Media Relations Campaign for
the second year running at the Communique Healthcare Awards on 19 July 2005."


For further information:

Creston Plc                          020 7930 9757
Don Elgie


Redleaf Communications Limited       020 7955 1410
Emma Kane/Miranda Good



About Creston Plc

Creston is fully listed on the London Stock Exchange under CRE.LN.  Additional
information is available on www.creston.com.  Creston's audited results for the
year to 31 March 2005 were released on 22 June 2005, showing a 68% rise in PBT
to £3.5million (2004: £2.1million) and a 25% rise in diluted EPS to 10.56 (2004:
8.47).

Creston's strategy is to build a diversified international marketing services
group through a combination of organic growth and selective acquisitions.  The
Board's aim is to identify synergistic benefits between currently independent
marketing services companies offering premium services such as market research,
direct marketing, advertising, PR and other areas of marketing communications.

Since January 2001, when the Company was repositioned as a marketing services
group, Creston has made seven significant acquisitions, which have demonstrated
growth despite challenging market conditions:




January 2001      Acquisition of Marketing Sciences Limited, an international 
                  quantitative and qualitative market research company, based 
                  in Winchester
November 2001     Acquisition of The Real Adventure Marketing Communications 
                  Limited, a national direct marketing and CRM company, based in 
                  Bath
December 2002     Acquisition of EMO Group Limited, a national channel marketing 
                  communications company, based in Swindon and Bristol
October 2003      Acquisition of Nelson Bostock Communications Limited, a London 
                  based public relations agency
September 2004    Acquisition of CML Research Limited, a London based 
                  qualitative market research business
March 2005        Acquisition of DLKW Group, a London based advertising and 
                  communications group
July 2005         Acquisition of Red Door Communications Ltd, a London based 
                  specialist healthcare PR agency






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