Circ re buy back of shares (Network)

    Network Group Holdings plc                           

                                (the "Company")                                

 Circular re buy back of shares, loan to EBT and acquisition of shares by EBT  

Network Group Holdings plc announces that it is today posting a circular to
shareholders containing proposals for a buy back of shares from the Original
PPDG Shareholders, a loan to the Network Group Holdings Employee Benefit Trust
and the acquisition of shares by the EBT, and convening a general meeting to
consider these proposals at 11.00 am on 15 December 2008.

The circular is available on the Company's website at
www.networkgroupholdings.co.uk

For further information please contact:

Network Group Holdings plc                     01676 525 000                 
Christopher Ross, Chairman                                                   
www.networkgroupholdings.co.uk                                               
                                                                             
Nominated Adviser                              020 7492 4777                 
Dowgate Capital Advisers Limited                                             
Tony Rawlinson/Simon Sacerdoti                                               
                                                                             
Broker                                         01293 517 744                 
Dowgate Capital Stockbrokers Limited                                         
Neil Badger                                                                  

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