Board Changes &Trading Update

Photo-Me International PLC
20 October 2000

                            
            BOARD CHANGES AND TRADING UPDATE
                            

Board Changes

PMI  is  pleased  to announce the appointment  of  Vernon
Sankey as independent non-executive Deputy Chairman, with
immediate effect.  Mr Sankey, 51, was Chief Executive  of
Reckitt  & Colman plc from 1991 until 1999 and  was  more
recently Chairman of Thompson Travel Group plc until  its
take-over  in  September 2000.   He is currently  a  non-
executive Director of both The Zurich Financial  Services
Group and Pearson plc.  Mr Sankey will be a member of the
Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees.

Vernon  Sankey stated 'I am delighted to be  joining  PMI
and  am  particularly excited by its hi-tech new  product
opportunities.  I look forward to playing my part in  the
enhancement   of   shareholder   value,   where   I   see
considerable scope'.

Daniel Amar, a non-executive Director, has today resigned
from  the Board and Peter Berridge, another non-executive
Director,  will  not now be standing for  re-election  at
this  afternoon's AGM.  This reduces the  Board  to  five
executive and five non-executive Directors.

Further  Board  changes, in which Vernon Sankey  will  be
involved, will be announced in due course.

Trading Update

At  PMI's  AGM  this afternoon, the following  update  on
trading will be given:

'Almost  six months of the current financial year  to  30
April 2001 have elapsed and, in what is historically  the
stronger half of the year for PMI's traditional business,
trading   continues  to  be  in  line  with  the  Board's
expectations.

The  year  to  date has been an exceptional one  for  new
product   roll-outs  and  launches  by  PMI's   R&D   and
manufacturing facility at Grenoble in South East  France.
Particularly notable are:


*  the DKS digital photo developing and printing minilab.
   The first machine was
   delivered in August and in September an OEM  contract
   was signed with Eastman Kodak  for  several  hundred  
   machines.The first  deliveries to Eastman Kodak will be
   made  in November and PMI is on target to deliver  to
   Eastman Kodak and other customers at least 500 machines
   by 30 April 2001.

*  the  self-service digital photoprinting kiosk,  to  be
   operated in the USA and Canada in joint venture with 
   SanDisk, whose first delivery is expected in December,
   with a targeted annual production of 2,000 machines for 
   those markets.

These  two  roll-outs, which will have a mildly  positive
effect (after launch costs) in the second half, will have
a major impact in future years'.



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