Trading Statement

Huveaux PLC
06 December 2005


6 December 2005

                                  HUVEAUX PLC

                            PRE-CLOSE TRADING UPDATE

Huveaux PLC, the publishing and media group, today provides the following
pre-close trading update:

Huveaux has doubled in size during 2005 through a combination of both organic
and acquisition-led growth and trading to date suggests a good out-turn for the
current financial year.

The Political Division has achieved underlying 11% organic sales growth in the
11 month period to 30 November. The controversial programme of reform by the UK
Government and the EU Parliament continues to drive increased revenue
opportunities across the Division's political publications and other media
channels.

The Learning Division has been significantly strengthened with the recent
acquisition of the e-learning business, Epic Group PLC, which was completed on
22 August. The integration of Epic is progressing well, with sales in line with
expectations and November orders particularly strong in the public sector. The
margins and profits from Epic during the last few months of the year have been
slightly higher than budgeted. The remainder of the Learning Division is trading
in line with expectations.

The Professional Division consists principally of the recently acquired JBB
Sante, a leading publisher of medical magazines in France. This acquisition was
completed on 5 October, a month later than planned. However, the integration of
JBB is also progressing well and trading is in line with expectations. JBB will
deliver a strong contribution to the Group's profits this year.

As previously indicated, the restructuring costs associated with the integration
of both Epic and JBB Sante into the Group will be taken as an exceptional item
and are expected to be within analysts' estimates.

Taken as a whole, the Board expects that Huveaux's sales and operating profit
for 2005, before exceptional items, will be in line with analysts' expectations.

The Company intends to announce its Preliminary Results for the financial year
ending 31 December 2005 in early March 2006.





For further information, please contact:

Huveaux PLC

John van Kuffeler, Executive Chairman 0207 245 0270

Finsbury

James Leviton 0207 251 3801
Don Hunter

Notes for Editors re Huveaux background:

Huveaux was formed in 2001 with the objective of building, over the next 10
years, a substantial publishing and media group through an appropriate balance
of acquisition-led and organic growth. Huveaux is focussed on the creation and
delivery of customer-critical information across both the public and private
sectors.

Since being admitted to AIM in December 2001, the Company has successfully
completed the acquisition of nine complementary businesses. It is the market
leader in political publishing and e-learning in the UK and one of the leading
medical publishers in France.

The Huveaux Group now consists of three Divisions: Political, Learning and
Professional which comprise a mix of magazines, websites, databases, reference
books, revision guides, manuals, videos, conferences, seminars and events in the
B2B sector. Huveaux has offices in London, Paris and Brussels as well as three
regional UK offices.

Huveaux was founded by John van Kuffeler, formerly Chief Executive and now
non-executive Chairman of Provident Financial plc.






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