Holding(s) in Company

Anite Group PLC
18 August 2006


                                                                  17 August 2006

                                ANITE GROUP PLC 
             
                             
The Company has today been advised by Artemis Investment Management Limited
('Artemis') that Artemis and certain of its investment clients, have a
notifiable interest of 34,909,920 ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company.
This interest is notifiable under Section 198 of the Companies Act 1985 and
represents 9.94% of the Companies issued share capital (351,084,769 ordinary
shares).



Full details of the interest and the beneficial holders are detailed below.


Beneficial Owner                           Number of Shares Held    % Interest
Artemis New Enterprises                                 1,215,201         0.35
Institutional Special Situations                        1,504,799         0.43
Artemis UK Smaller Companies                           12,687,500         3.61
Artemis Special Situations                              9,836,048         2.80
Barclays UK Opportunities                               1,568,201         0.45
Prudential Staff Pension Scheme                         1,420,630         0.40
Barclays UK Smaller Companies                           2,102,837         0.60
L&G (Barclays) Managed Opps Trust Artemis               1,193,201         0.34
Akzo Nobel Pension Scheme                               1,693,202         0.48
Pearson                                                 1,688,301         0.48



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For further information, please contact:                    www.anite.com

Anite Group plc                                             01753 804000
John Sadler

Smithfield                                                  020 7360 4900
Reg Hoare/Sara Musgrave




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