Trading Statement

Tribal Group PLC
17 January 2008


Tribal Group plc
17 January 2008


Tribal Group plc

Trading Update Statement

Tribal Group plc ('Tribal' or the 'Group') will announce its results for the 
nine months to 31 December 2007 on 26 March 2008. The results will be for a 
nine month period reflecting the change of Tribal's year end to 31 December, as 
announced previously.

The encouraging progress reported in the Interim results on 21 November 2007 has
continued.The Group therefore expects profits and earnings to be substantially 
ahead of the corresponding nine month period in 2006, pro forma profit before 
tax for the year ended 31 December 2007 to be towards the top end of market 
forecasts and pro forma earnings per share for the year to be ahead of 
expectations.

Cash generation in the last three months of the period was better than expected
and net debt at the year end was less than £8m.

Tribal has continued to focus on its core activities of providing a range of 
consulting, support and delivery services that improve the delivery of public 
services. We have seen good demand for our services in the past three months and
an increasing number of opportunities for us to supply integrated solutions to 
our clients.

Our Education business has had a strong end to the period with good performances
across Software, Learning & Publishing and Services. Consulting has also 
continued to perform well in the period, particularly in Housing & Regeneration, 
Central Government and Health. We have also seen the development of a good 
pipeline of opportunities for our recently established Health Commissioning 
business. Each of our support services businesses has traded in line with our 
expectations, with Architectural Design and Communications continuing their 
good performances and Resourcing seeing an improvement in its operating margins.

Given the strength of the balance sheet, the Board believes that it is now
appropriate to make an additional equity return in the form of an on-market
share buy-back. Accordingly, Tribal's brokers, Hoare Govett, will be making
selective purchases in the market with the intention of acquiring up to 5% of
the issued share capital during 2008.

Tribal enters its new financial year with approximately 40% of 2008 planned 
revenue already committed (2007: 29%) and with total committed income of
£124m (2007: £108m) an increase of 15 per cent. We continue to see good 
opportunities for growth across our markets and the Board is confident about 
Tribal's prospects in the current year and beyond.

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For further information, please contact:

Tribal Group plc                                Telephone: [phone]
Peter Martin, Chief Executive
Simon Lawton, Group Finance Director

Maitland                                        Telephone: [phone]
Colin Browne
Anthony Silverman

Editors' note:

Tribal provides a range of consultancy, support and delivery services focused 
on improving the delivery of public services in the UK. Our core markets are in 
education, health, housing and regeneration, central government and local 
government.  Tribal employs approximately 2,000 staff and its shares are 
quoted on the London Stock Exchange (TRB).

Links: Tribal Group plc website: www.tribalgroup.co.uk


This Statement has been prepared for and is addressed only to our shareholders
as a whole and should not be relied on by any other party or for any other
purpose. Tribal, its directors, employees, agents or advisers do not accept or
assume responsibility to any other person to whom this Statement is shown or
into whose hands it may come and any such responsibility or liability is
expressly disclaimed.


This Statement may contain forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking
statement has been made by the directors in good faith based on the information
available to them up to the time of approval of this Statement and should be
treated with caution due to the inherent uncertainties, including both economic
and business risk factors, underlying such forward-looking information. To the
extent that this Statement contains any statement dealing with any time after
the date of its preparation, such statement is merely predictive and speculative
as it relates to events and circumstances which are yet to occur and therefore
the facts stated and views expressed may change. Tribal undertakes no obligation
to update these forward-looking statements.







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