Offer DiscussionsTerminated

Quadrant Group PLC 23 November 1999 On 8 June 1999 Quadrant Group plc (the 'Company' or 'Quadrant') announced that it had received an approach that may or may not lead to an offer being made for the Company. Discussions regarding the approach have continued. Since then two other developments have been announced: 1. On 27 September 1999, following shareholders' approval, Quadrant entered into a Strategic Alliance with FlightSafety Boeing Training International Inc ('FSB') under which FSB purchased Quadrant's three full flight simulators for £4.5 million, Quadrant agreed to provide maintenance and other services to FSB for a minimum of five years, and FSB and Quadrant agreed to co-operate in other areas. FSB is the world's largest provider of simulator training for civilian airline pilots. As a result of this transaction Quadrant's net debt was substantially eliminated. 2. On 9 November 1999 Quadrant announced that its 50% joint venture company had won selection by the Ministry of Defence as Preferred Bidder for an approximately £50 million 30 year Public Finance Initiative contract for the provision of simulator flight training for the RAF's E3D Sentry aircraft. The Directors of Quadrant consider that, provided the E3D contract is successfully finalised by April 2000 as planned, these two developments taken together are likely to have a significant positive impact on the future value of the Company, and have made it unlikely that the discussions referred to on 8 June would result in an offer being made for the Company that the Directors would be able to recommend. The discussions have therefore terminated.

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