Employee Share Incentive Plan

Evolution Group PLC
06 October 2004


6 October 2004

                              Evolution Group Plc

Sanne Trustee Company UK Ltd as trustee of the Evolution Employee Share
Incentive Plan Trust

The Evolution Group Plc ("Evolution" or the "Company"), the investment bank and
retail fund management group, announces that Sanne Trustee Company UK Limited
(the "Trustee") in its capacity as the trustee of the Evolution Employee Share
Incentive Plan (the "Plan") has yesterday purchased 6,786 Ordinary shares of 1p
each at a price of 154 pence per share and that Evolution has today issued 6,224
Ordinary shares of 1p each credited as fully paid at 154 pence per share to the
Trustee as "matching shares" under the terms of the Plan. The Trustee holds the
shares as Nominee for the participants of the Plan.

The purchase and issue included the following shares in respect of certain of
its directors:

Name of    Number of Ordinary Total number of  Interest of         Percentage of
Director   shares (including  Ordinary shares  director in         issued share
           matching and       held by the      Ordinary shares     capital
           dividend shares)   Trustee for      including the       represented
           acquired by the    director         shares held by the  by director's
           Trustee for        following such   Trustee for the     Total
           director           acquisition      director ("Total    Interest
                                               Interest")

Alex                    162            3,182             432,284          0.17
Snow

Graeme                  162            3,182              51,002          0.02
Dell

Richard
Griffiths               162            3,182           5,838,182          2.35

The above directors' interests exclude any interests in options over ordinary
shares in the Company.

                                      ENDS

For more information please contact:

The Evolution Group Plc (www.evolution-group.com)            020 7071 4300
Graeme Dell, Finance Director




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