Director/PDMR Shareholding

Evolution Group PLC
04 April 2008


The Evolution Group Plc
4 April 2008


                            The Evolution Group Plc
                            Directors' Shareholdings

The Evolution Group Plc ("Evolution" or the "Company"), the investment bank and
retail fund management group, announces that Sanne Trustee Company UK Limited
(the "Trustee") in its capacity as the trustee of The Evolution Group Plc
Employee Share Incentive Plan Trust (the "Plan") on 3 April 2008 purchased
21,116 Ordinary Shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price
of 106.25 pence per share and that Evolution has today issued 21,116 Ordinary
shares of 1p each credited as fully paid at 106.25 pence per share to the
Trustee as "matching shares" under the terms of the Plan.


The Trustee holds the shares as Nominee for the participants of the Plan.

The total purchase and issue for the Plan included the following shares in
respect of certain of its directors:

Name of Director       Number of Total number of     Interest of   Percentage of
                 Ordinary shares Ordinary shares     director in    issued share
                      (including     held by the Ordinary shares         capital
                        matching     Trustee for   including the  represented by
                         shares)        director  shares held by      director's
                 acquired by the  following such the Trustee for  Total Interest
                     Trustee for     acquisition    the director
                        director                         ("Total
                                                      Interest")
Alex Snow                  234          13,679       3,026,849           1.352 %
Andrew Umbers              234           3,889         103,889           0.046 %


The above directors' interests exclude any interests in options over ordinary
shares in the Company.


For more information please contact:
The Evolution Group Plc
Tony Lee, Group Company Secretary                            Tel: [phone]



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