Trading Statement

Zytronic PLC 25 April 2002 ZYTRONIC PLC Trading Statement In the past six months Zytronic has continued to progress a number of touchscreen projects in the sectors of financial services, telecommunications, gaming and interactive kiosks. Amongst these projects Zytouch has been specified by B.T. for their web telephone system, which is the world's largest network of public access internet terminals. Production has now commenced and BT anticipate the roll out of the project to be 28,000 units. Other projects continue to be progressed and we expect to be able to make a series of announcements later in the year. In my statement in December 2001 I stated that there would be a substantial reduction in profitability in the first half of this year as a consequence of an increase in overheads, in order to strengthen the senior management and sales and marketing operations, which Directors believe is necessary to support the development of Zytouch. This, coupled with the downturn in the electronics sector, has left the company making a pre tax loss of approximately £480,000 in the first half of this year. With the recent return to more normal sales levels we expect a significant improvement in trading in the second half. Zytouch continues to be successfully specified in qualification programmes in all targeted market sectors and the Directors anticipate that further substantial contracts will be secured in the second half of this year. The strengthening of the traditional order book to the levels of last year, combined with existing Zytouch contracts and the ongoing success in the qualification programmes, lead the Directors to remain optimistic about the future prospects of the group. 25 April 2002 ENQUIRIES: Zytronic Plc Tel: 0191 414 5511 Ian Lawson, Chief Executive College Hill Tel: 0207 457 2020 Michael Padley This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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