Director/Significant Interest

Matchtech Group PLC
09 May 2007


Matchtech Group plc

9th May 2007

Matchtech Group plc (the 'Company')
Directors' and other notifiable interests


The Company has been notified that on 8th May 2007 Paul Raine, Group Resource
Director and Stephen Searle*, a significant shareholder, each sold 300,000
ordinary shares in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') and George Materna, Chairman,
sold 225,000 Ordinary Shares all at 475p per Ordinary Share, and that on 9th May
2007 Adrian Gunn, Group Managing Director, sold 7,500 Ordinary Shares at
467.875p per Ordinary Share, in aggregate a total of 832,500 Ordinary Shares.

Following these disposals, their respective remaining disclosable interests in
the Company's Ordinary Shares comprise:

George Materna         7,877,405 Ordinary Shares     35.0%
Paul Raine             1,829,827 Ordinary Shares      8.1%
Stephen Searle*          916,650 Ordinary Shares      4.1%
Adrian Gunn              398,134 Ordinary Shares      1.8%

*Stephen Searle sold 265,000 Ordinary Shares and retains 881,650 Ordinary
Shares; Sarah Searle, his wife, sold 35,000 Ordinary Shares and retains 35,000
Ordinary Shares.

Arbuthnot Securities agreed to an early release of these 832,500 Ordinary
Shares, and a further 105,019 Ordinary Shares in respect of current and former
senior managers, from the lock-in deeds entered into at the time of the
Company's admission to trading on AIM in October 2006 in order to satisfy
institutional demand. The terms of the lock-in deeds remain otherwise unaltered
and in force.

Contacts:

Matchtech Group plc                           01489 898989
George Materna, Chairman

Arbuthnot Securities                          020 7012 2000
Mark Brown / Andrew Fullerton / Ian Williams

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