Directorate Change

Buckland Group PLC 26 March 2007 BUCKLAND GROUP PLC ('Buckland' or the 'Company') Statement Re: Intended Acquisition, Fund Raising and New Board Appointment. Buckland announces that Patrick Rogers has been relieved of his duties as executive chairman following the loss of confidence in his management of the company by a majority of the directors. Philip Palmer is currently acting as Executive Chairman of the Company. Buckland also announces it is proposing to acquire a company, based in Thailand, that manufactures and distributes spark ignition electrodes. The Company envisages that the consideration for the acquisition will be satisfied entirely by the issue of new Buckland ordinary shares. In connection with and conditional upon the proposed acquisition, Buckland is also intending to raise approximately £350,000 by way of a placing of new Buckland shares and to strengthen the Company's balance sheet through the conversion into new Buckland shares of certain debts owed by the Company. This conversion will be subject to a fairness opinion pursuant to paragraph 13 of the AIM rules for companies as Lee Sharples, a director of the company, is intending to convert debts owed to him into equity. Upon completion of the proposals it is anticipated that Patrick Rogers will resign as a director and if he fails to do so an EGM will be called by certain shareholders to remove him as a director. Christopher K. Foster will be appointed to the board. The Board is confident of reaching agreement on the several proposals outlined above within the next month and will make further announcements in due course. For further enquiries: Philip Palmer Director 07908 864 8738 John Depasquale Seymour Pierce 0207107 8000 Kris McGuire Investrad Ltd 0207 953 4063 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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