Notice of Results

  Paypoint plc Notice of Preliminary Results   PayPoint plc, the cash and internet payments group, advises that it will make its Preliminary Results announcement for the year ended 30 March 2008 on Thursday, 22 May 2008.   A presentation for analysts will take place at 11.45 at Finsbury, Tenter House, 45 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AE, with coffee available from 11.15.     Enquiries   Finsbury Group             020 7251 3801 Rollo Head Don Hunter     About PayPoint   PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK and Ireland, handling in excess of £6 billion in over 470 million transactions annually for more than 5,000 clients and merchants. The company operates with several payment networks:   *        The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 19,400 terminal outlets located in local shops (including Co-op, Spar, Costcutter, Sainsburys Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle gas and electricity meter prepayments, cash bill payments, mobile phone top-ups, transport tickets, London Congestion charges, BBC TV licences and a wide variety of other payment types for all of the leading utilities, telecommunications suppliers and many consumer service companies. This network is used by consumers, free of charge, 8 million times a week. The network has 97.3% population cover on a 1 mile urban or 5 miles rural measure; *        Additionally there are over 2,000 Multiple retailer connections into the electronic till systems of outlets in the UK including BP, Somerfield and Superdrug for mobile top-ups and selected payments from the PayPoint range; *        The PayPoint ATM network has over 1,950 'LINK' branded machines across the UK, also typically in convenience stores; *        PayPoint.net (combining Metacharge and SECPay), provides secure credit and debit card payments for over 4,500 web merchants linking into all the major UK acquiring banks; and *        PayPoint International acquired a Romanian mobile top-up operator in May 2007 to which a bill payment service will be added, emulating the UK branded retail network. PayPoint International also operates Irish bill payment and top-up services.   PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004 and the company's market capitalisation was £372 million as at 6 May 2008. ---END OF MESSAGE---

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