Analysts' Briefing

Mears Group PLC
12 December 2007


Mears Group PLC ('Mears' or 'the Company')

12 December 2007


Analysts' Briefing


The Company will be holding a briefing for sector analysts at 10.30am this
morning at the offices of Investec, 2 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7QP.  At the
briefing, Bob Holt, David Robertson and Andrew Smith will report that
trading for the year ending 31 December 2007 is in line with management's
expectations and give a presentation on the Company's activities.


They will make reference to two recent additions to the Company's Care Division,
namely the acquisitions of Complete Care and Pooks Care Ltd. The Complete Care
business operates from offices in the Wirral servicing contracts with Wirral
Borough Council and Cheshire County Council as well as private clients. Pooks
Care Ltd operates from 7 offices in the Midlands and Home Counties providing
care services to 13 Local Authorities, 12 of which are new to Careforce. These 2
acquisitions were acquired from private individuals for a total consideration up
to a maximum of £5.9 million in cash payable from existing resources. This
comprises initial payments of £4.2 million followed by deferred payments of up
to £1.7 million conditional upon the achievement of agreed performance targets
over the 18 months following completion. The addition of these 8 branches has
increased the volume of hours delivered per week by 10,500 and introduced an
additional 410 carers to the Group.


The Company is pleased to announce that it intends to appoint Peter Dicks (65)
to the Board as Deputy Chairman. Peter has been active in the venture capital
and investments fields for a number of years. He is currently a director of
several quoted and unquoted companies including Private Equity Investor PLC of
which he is Chairman, Polar Capital Technology Trust PLC, Graphite Enterprise
Trust PLC and Standard Microsystems Inc., a US NASDAQ quoted company. Peter is
beneficially interested in 23,298 ordinary shares in Mears Group PLC. A further
announcement relating to Peter's appointment will be made in due course.


The Company is also pleased to announce that it intends to appoint David Hosein
(43) as a non-executive Director. David is a partner in OC&C Strategy
Consultants where he is head of their Services & Technology Practice. He has
over 17 years consulting experience, the last five of which have been at OC&C.
David has worked extensively in the support services sector for corporate and
private equity clients. Previously, he was a partner in Arthur Andersen. David
does not hold any shares in Mears Group PLC. A further announcement relating to
David's appointment will be made in due course.


As is customary, the Company will release its pre-close trading update in early
January 2008.


Enquiries:


Mears Group PLC
Bob Holt, Chief Executive                               07778 798 816
David Robertson, Finance Director                       07887 705 357
Andrew Smith, Executive Director                        07712 866 461


Threadneedle Communications
Trevor Bass                                             020 7936 9666
Alex White


Nominated adviser to Mears Group PLC
Investec
Keith Anderson/Michael Ansell                           020 7597 5970





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