AGM Statement

Anite Group PLC
04 October 2005



For immediate release                                    Tuesday, 4 October 2005

                                Anite Group plc
                         AGM Statement & Trading Update

At its Annual General Meeting to be held later today, and ahead of an analyst
presentation tomorrow, Alec Daly, the Chairman of Anite Group plc ('Anite' or
'the Group'), the worldwide IT solutions and services company, will make the
following comments:

Current trading

'As is usual, the Group's first half performance is expected to be weighted to
the final weeks of the period. In comparison to the same period last year, when
we experienced exceptional order intake in our Travel and Telecoms divisions,
the summer months have not benefited from a similar pattern. This, coupled with
the planned increase in development spending, will impact our interim results.
Against this background and in line with our expectations, for the year as a
whole we expect continued progress in our Telecoms division, a broadly similar
outcome for Public Sector and lower profitability in our Travel division.

In line with our stated intention, the Group bought back and cancelled 5.28m
shares in July/August at a total cost of £3.5m and at an average price of 66.2p.
As anticipated, net funds will be impacted by the expected seasonal cash outflow
in the first half together with the cost of the share buy back.

Pericles / State of Victoria

Pericles
Progress continues in line with our expectations. There has been considerable
operational progress in the last six months with additional modules implemented
and new releases of the software. However, with completion some eighteen months
off, Pericles will continue to represent a risk to performance.

State of Victoria ('SoV')
The performance and stability issues highlighted at the time of our year end
results have been remedied to our satisfaction. The Stage 1 software is
currently in user acceptance testing with a view to going live at the start of
the new calendar year. As previously indicated, the contract continues to be a
risk to the Group's performance.

Board succession planning

The AGM today completes our Board succession planning and transformation
following the appointment of new directors.

During the year Peter Bertram and David Hurst-Brown replaced David Thorpe and
Graham Caleb as non-executive directors. Following the conclusion of today's
AGM, I retire, and my successor, Clay Brendish, whose appointment we announced
in July, joins as Chairman. I was particularly delighted with the appointment of
Clay Brendish whose considerable experience in the IT industry will greatly
benefit the Group.

Conclusion

As I said in July, I am pleased to be handing over the Chair at a time when
Anite is in the best shape it has been for a number of years following the
considerable transformational work undertaken by the new management team.

Alec Daly
Chairman
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Steve Rowley, Chief Executive
Christopher Humphrey, Group Finance Director
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