Disposal

4imprint Group PLC 22 July 2005 Press Release 22 July 2005 4imprint Group plc Sale of Adventures in Advertising Franchise Inc by 4imprint Group plc 4imprint Group plc announces today, the sale of its USA based Promotional Products Franchise business, Adventures in Advertising (AiA) to The Riverside Company, a US Private Investment Group. The Transaction Consideration was $11.3m in cash. Costs of executing the transaction are expected to be around $1.2m. The AiA business is the only Franchise business in the 4imprint Group. It does not fit the Group's Strategy, which is to concentrate on its core activities of providing products and support services for Corporate and Product Promotions, using its 'in house' resources. In the year ending December 31 2004, the AiA business achieved fee income of $8.5m, generating operating profits of $1.8m. The net assets amounted to $5.9m. While the 4imprint Group 2005 Interim Results will be announced on August 3 2005, the Group confirms in advance of this, that trading conditions in the first half of the year have been encouraging and that operating profit before pension charges will be not less than £3.0m for this first half year. Commenting on the disposal, Ken Minton, Executive Chairman, said 'I am pleased to see the sale of the AiA business to Riverside Company which already has other franchise interests in its portfolio. The disposal allows 4imprint Group to concentrate on its rapidly growing core businesses in both Europe and North America, while adding substantially to its cash resources.' For further details contact: Ken Minton 0161 786 0424 Gillian Davies 0161 786 0424 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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