Company Restructure

Pentagon Protection PLC 24 February 2006 For release 07.00am 24 February 2006 PENTAGON PROTECTION PLC Strategic Restructuring via Acquisition and Divestment & Trading Update Pentagon Protection Plc ('Pentagon' or 'the Company'), the provider of safety and security products for commercial, architectural and automotive glass, announces that following a difficult 2005 it intends to significantly restructure its business to improve its sustainable growth prospects for the future. Pentagon is already in advanced talks to acquire one the UK's leading flat glass film application companies. The acquisition would complement Pentagon's commercial buildings and architectural division ('buildings division'), which supplies and installs blast protection film to flat glass and anchoring systems for enhanced blast and weather protection. All sales of the company concerned are in the UK, it has a healthy order book, a good spread of clients, and an experienced management team. Pentagon intends to divest its loss-making automotive division via a trade sale as soon as possible. This will free up management resources to concentrate on growing its buildings division. Trading Update 2005 was a challenging year for Pentagon. Its automotive division that designs and applies tinting and strengthening film to automotive glass incurred substantial losses that included large exceptional write offs. The demands on time the division required were to the detriment of management attention and subsequently the performance of the company's buildings division, that will also report a loss despite a growing international business. The buildings division's revenue in the first quarter 2006 saw the contribution of overseas sales increase significantly to 50% of all sales, up from 20% in the same period of 2005. Demand for blast and weather protection film application on buildings is growing rapidly around the world and Pentagon has determined to take full advantage of this. The Company already has offices in the UK, continental Europe, the Middle East, and has signed a distribution agreement with Mr. ElZayn, Chairman of Allegiance Holdings LLC, for the sale and distribution of the company's products in the US. The Company will look to open more offices and sign distributor deals around the world in 2006. Graham Bannerman, Pentagon Chief Executive, commented: 'It was a difficult decision to put the automotive division up for sale, but with the losses incurred, we feel it is now time to maximize our efforts on our core business. There is an increasing demand around the world for protective film for windows in buildings, which is being helped by the growing number of conflicts and the concern of terror attacks. We look forward to focusing all our attention on growing the core business and are excited about its potential.' Pentagon will announce its Preliminary Results for the financial year ended 30 September 2005 in the latter half of March 2006. - ENDS - Enquiries: Pentagon Protection Plc Graham Bannerman, Chief Executive T. 020 8749 9749 Binns & Co PR Ltd Ben Knowles T. 020 7786 9600 ben.Knowles@binnspr.co.uk M. 07900 346 978 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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