Transaction in own shares and

RNS Number : 4355L

Iomart Group PLC

12 January 2009

iomart Group plc (the 'Company')

Transaction in own shares and Directors' purchases

Transaction in own shares

iomart Group plc, the managed hosting company, announces that, pursuant to the general authority granted by shareholders of the Company on 29 September 2008 to make market purchases of its own shares, the Company has on 8 January 2008 made market purchases of 1,500,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 21 pence per share. These shares will be held in treasury.

Directors' shareholdings

The Company has also been notified today, that, the following purchases by directors were made, all at a price of 21 pence per share:

Name of director	Date shares were acquired	Number of shares acquired	Beneficial interest in shares following this notification	Percentage of issued share capital after the transaction in own shares
Angus MacSween, Chief Executive Officer	8 January 2009	400,000	19,686,304	19.9
Richard Logan, Group Finance Director	8 January 2009	90,000	135,500	0.2
Sarah Haran, Executive Director	9 January 2009	25,000	745,704	0.8