RNS Number:8431I
Expomedia Group PLC
17 March 2003


Monday, 17 March

                              Expomedia Group Plc

 Proposed Placing of 1,700,000 ordinary shares at 120p per ordinary share with
                              Informa Group Plc

The board of Expomedia Group Plc ("Expomedia" or the "Company") announces that
an Extraordinary General Meeting was held earlier today to seek the shareholder
approval necessary for the Placing.

At the Extraordinary General Meeting, the Shareholders passed resolutions to
increase the authorised share capital of the Company, to authorise the directors
to allot enough new ordinary shares for the placing and to disapply the
statutory pre-emption rights contained in section 89(1) of the Companies Act
1985.

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