Offer Wholly Unconditional

INTEREUROPE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PLC 19 August 1999 RIDGMOUNT HOLDINGS LIMITED ('RIDGMOUNT') OFFER FOR INTEREUROPE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PLC ('INTEREUROPE'): DECLARED WHOLLY UNCONDITIONAL Pursuant to the Offer made by Ridgmount for Intereurope, Ridgmount announces that by 3.00 pm on 18 August 1999, valid acceptances had been received in respect of a total 2,511,243 Intereurope Shares, representing approximately 57.7 per cent of the existing issued share capital of Intereurope. Of these acceptances, those in respect of a total of 1,465,897 Intereurope Shares were received pursuant to irrevocable undertakings to accept the Offer from certain Intereurope shareholders connected with, and including, members of the Immanuel family. On July 15 1999, prior to the commencement of the Offer Period, Ridgmount conditionally agreed to acquire from David Immanuel and the Trustees of the Language Studies Retirement Fund 1,187,178 Intereurope shares representing approximately 27.2% of the issued share capital of Intereurope. Other than as disclosed above, neither Ridgmount nor any persons deemed to be acting in concert with Ridgmount owned any Intereurope Shares (or rights over such shares) immediately prior to the commencement of the Offer Period, nor have acquired or agreed to acquire any Intereurope Shares (or rights over such shares) during the Offer Period. Ridgmount is pleased to announce that the Offer has been declared unconditional in all respects and that, accordingly, Ridgmount holds 3,698,421 Intereurope shares, representing approximately 84.9 per cent of the existing issued share capital of Intereurope. The Offer will remain open for acceptance until further notice. As stated in the Offer Document, since there will no longer be sufficient Intereurope shares in public hands to comply with the Listing Rules of the London Stock Exchange an application will be made for the listing of the Intereurope shares on the Official List to be cancelled. The application will request that the cancellation take effect 20 business days after the date of this announcement. Defined terms in this nnouncement have the same meanings as in the Offer Document issued by Ridgmount on 22 July 1999 containing the Offer. Enquiries: David Immanuel: 0171-467-6502 This announcement has been issued by Ridgmount Holdings Limited. The directors of Ridgmount Holdings Limited accept responsibility for the information contained in this announcement. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the directors of Ridgmount Holdings Limited (who have taken all reasonable care to ensure that such is the case), the information contained herein for which they are responsible is in accordance with the facts and does not omit anything likely to affect the import of such information. The contents of this announcement have been approved by McClure Naismith, solicitors in Scotland of Pountney Hill House, 6 Laurence Pountney Hill, London EC4R 0BL acting for Ridgmount and who are authorised by the Law Society of Scotland in the conduct of investment business. With the exception of any responsibility arising from that approval for the purposes of Section 57 of the Financial Services Act 1986 only McClure Naismith have not undertaken and will not owe any other duty to any person in relation to this document, save for Ridgmount to whom they have acted as legal advisers (including in relation to the requirements of the City Code) only.

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