Co-Investment Agreement and Investment

Property & Capital Group PLC 2 March 2000 Property & Capital Group Plc (the 'Group') Co-Investment Agreement and Investment The Group, holding a sound residential property portfolio of some £60 million, announces that it intends to broaden its scope of investment, particularly to high-tech areas. The Group already holds some investments in other areas, including an investment of some 600,000 shares, acquired at 3p per share, in Corporate Executive Search, re-admitted yesterday to AIM. The investment activity is expected to extend from minority investment to acquisitions which can, with the benefit of the Group's ability to provide cash from its asset base, grow on to achieve full potential. The Group has reached agreement with Skye Capital Partners, which is controlled by the Group's largest shareholders, the Adair Trusts, that the Group may co-invest alongside Skye Capital Partners in high-tech investments. Skye Capital Partners over the last three years has made over £14 million of such investments and commitments in a portfolio concentrated on internet protocol telephony, telematics and IT contracting, including a recent investment in Science Dynamics, a US public company, of which Skye Capital Partners holds 3%. John Minshull-Beech, Managing Director of Skye Capital Partners, has agreed to accept appointment as investment Director to advise the Group Board on relevant investments. John Minshull-Beech qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Arthur Anderson, and spent four years in Morgan Grenfell's corporate finance department, then 10 years at Chelsfield PLC with senior executive responsibility for its larger joint ventures and venture capital investments. He has been Managing Director of Skye Capital Partners since 1998. The first two investments to be made by the Group have been selected: - Telematix Limited, of Andover, Hampshire has developed a leading edge core telematics system enabling it to offer a number of complementary services from a technical platform to a number of different market sectors internationally. Its first systems are applicable to vehicle location and fleet management, and combine cost effective use of satellite location, trunk radio and cellular GSM communication. To date Telematix, whose sales began in December, has focused on two vehicle based services, one in the vehicle security market (eGuard) and one in the fleet management market (eMatix), being the most mature market segments in an emerging industry. eGuard has been received with enthusiasm and endorsed by insurers, eMatix is targeted at commercial fleet management. Much more is expected to be heard of Telematix. The Group's investment will be £500,000 to acquire a material stake. IPBell is one of the first Next Generation Operators to simultaneously transport multi-media traffic, including voice, video, fax, and data across a worldwide network of IP (internet) nodes. IPBell will provide the backbone equipment, marketing and worldwide presence enabling individual in-country operators to offer their customers access to the most technologically advanced network in the world, marketed under one brand name. Strategic partners including Cisco Systems, Science Synamics Corporation, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Simplified Telesys, Belle Systems and Jyra Research. The Group is making an initial investment of US$250,000. Further information on Telematix and IPBell can be obtained on: - www.telematix.co.uk www.scidyn.com www.hp.com/ssg/telecom 2 March 2000

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