Director/PDMR Shareholding

Evolution Group PLC
18 January 2006

18 January 2006

The Evolution Group Plc
Notification of Transactions of Directors and Directors' Shareholdings

The Evolution Group Plc (the "Company") has received notification on 
18 January 2006 from Evolution EBT Limited (the "Trustee") as Trustee
of The Evolution Group Plc Employees' Share Trust (the "Trust", a 
discretionary trust of which all employees of The Evolution Group Plc 
and its subsidiaries are beneficiaries), that Alex Snow, Chief Executive
Officer, ("Director") had exercised call rights at an exercise price of 
one pence per share (the "Call Rights") over 4,000,000 ordinary shares 
of 1p each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") on 18 January 2006. 
These Call Rights were granted to Alex Snow on 13 November 2003 under 
The Evolution Group Plc 2002 Executive Share Incentive Plan (the "Plan") 
and had vested in previous years in accordance with the performance 
criteria attached to the Call Rights.

The Trustee also notified the Company that on 18 January 2006, it had 
disposed of 1,656,504 Shares at a sale price of 143.0 pence per share 
on behalf of Alex Snow solely to cover the exercise and taxation costs 
of the Call Rights transaction and that the balance of 2,343,496 Shares 
arising from the Call Rights exercise were transferred to Alex Snow.

As a result of the above transactions, Alex Snow has an interest in 
3,018,969 Shares of the Company, including Shares held by the Trustee
for the Director.  The Shares which Alex Snow now holds represent 
approximately 1.32 % (previously 0.30%) of the Company's issued share 
capital.


For more information please contact:
The Evolution Group Plc
Graeme Dell, Finance Director           020 7071 4300



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