Notice of Interim Results

Creston PLC 22 November 2004 Date: Monday 22 November 2004 On behalf of: Creston Plc For immediate release Creston Plc to Announce Interim Results On Monday 29 November 2004 The Board of Creston plc, the marketing services group, today announced that it will release its interim results for six months ended 30th September 2004, on Monday 29th November 2004. An analysts' presentation will be held at 0930hrs prompt on 29th November at Redleaf Communications, 9-13 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AF. - Ends - Further information: Emma Kane/James White Tel: 020 7955 1410 Redleaf Communications Mob: 07876 338339 Notes to Editors: About Creston plc Creston's strategy is to build a diversified international marketing services group through a combination of organic growth and selective acquisitions. The Board's aim is to identify synergistic benefits between currently independent marketing services companies offering premium services such as market research, direct marketing, customer relationship marketing and other areas of marketing communications. Since January 2001, when the Company was repositioned as a marketing services group, Creston has made five significant acquisitions, which have demonstrated growth despite difficult market conditions: January 2001 Acquisition of Marketing Sciences Limited, an international quantitative and qualitative market research company, based in Winchester November 2001 Acquisition of The Real Adventure Marketing Communications Limited, a national marketing communications company, based in Bath December 2002 Acquisition of EMO Group Limited, a national channel marketing communications company, based in Swindon and Bristol October 2003 Acquisition of Nelson Bostock Communications Limited, a London based public relations agency September 2004 Acquisition of CML Research Limited, a London based qualitative market research business Together these companies boast a range of blue-chip clients including Lloyds Black Horse, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Tesco, Toshiba, Canon, BMW (UK), MINI, Pfizer, Cow & Gate, Bacardi-Martini, Post Office, Tropicana, Nestle Rowntree, NEC, NTL, George Wimpey, Andreas Stihl and Vodafone. Creston's share price is quoted in the Financial Times, Telegraph, the Times and the London Evening Standard. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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