RNS Number:4135K
Tarsus Group PLC
25 April 2003


                        Tarsus Group plc (the "Company")


 Result of Annual General Meeting and Scrip Dividend Alternative and Directors'
                                 Shareholdings


Annual General Meeting


All the resolutions proposed at the annual general meeting of the Company, held
earlier today, were passed. Those resolutions include a resolution authorising
the Directors to allot a number of ordinary shares of 5p each ("Ordinary
Shares") in the capital of the Company. The Directors propose to use that
authority to allot Ordinary Shares to those shareholders who have elected to
receive the final cash dividend ("the Dividend") for the year ended 31 December
2002 to which they are otherwise entitled in the form of Ordinary Shares under
the scrip dividend alternative offered by the Company in respect of that
dividend ("the Scrip Dividend Alternative").


A copy of the resolutions has been submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and
will be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing
Facility, which is situated at:


Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London E14 5HS


Telephone Number: (0)20 7676 1000



Scrip Dividend Alternative


Elections under the Scrip Dividend Alternative have been received from
shareholders in respect of 24,258,644 Ordinary Shares (representing 64.14 per
cent. of the existing issued share capital) and, as a result, the Board of the
Company has allotted 2,809,011 new Ordinary Shares ("New Ordinary Shares")
(representing 7.43 per cent. of the existing issued share capital). These New
Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary
Shares. Application has been made for the admission of the New Ordinary Shares
to the Official List and to the London Stock Exchange's market for listed
securities and dealings are expected to commence on 28 April 2003.


The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue following the allotment of the New
Ordinary Shares will be 40,631,524.


Payments of #298,405.11 in aggregate will be made on 28 April 2003 in respect of
the Dividend to those shareholders who did not make an election under the Scrip
Dividend Alternative.


Directors' Shareholdings


Following the allotment of New Ordinary Shares, and as notified to the Company
today by each of the Directors, the shareholdings of the Directors are as
follows:

Director    Registered        No. of New % of enlarged         Total   % of enlarged
            Holder       Ordinary Shares  issued share  shareholding    issued share
                                             capital                       capital

N D Buch    ND Buch             63,089          0.15         607,951          1.49
            Morgan             882,896          2.17       8,507,918         20.93
            Nominees
            Limited
            Hamilton           212,859          0.52       2,051,195          5.04
            Trust
            Company
            Limited

            Owlcastle                -          0.00         269,230          0.66
            Limited
            Dominic              1,712          0.00          16,498          0.04
            Buch
            Chloe Buch           1,712          0.00          16,498          0.04
                              --------     ---------      ----------     ---------
    Total                    1,162,268          2.86      11,469,290         28.23
                              --------     ---------      ----------     ---------

P           Abacus Trust       108,216          0.26       1,042,821          2.56
O'Donnell   Company
            Limited
            E L Landau +        81,805          0.20         788,305          1.94
            Another
            Barclayshare       308,444          0.75       3,084,444          7.59
            Nominees
            Limited
            Sinjul              17,368          0.04         167,386          0.41
            Nominees          --------     ---------      ----------     ---------
            Limited
    Total                      515,833          1.26       5,082,956         12.50
                              --------     ---------      ----------     ---------

J D         J D Emslie          61,562          0.15         593,204          1.46
Emslie

D Delaney   D Delaney            5,189          0.01          50,000          0.12

R T E       R T E Ware          23,164          0.05         223,164          0.54
Ware

B Becker    B Becker                 -             -          57,692          0.14

C A Smith   C A Smith          556,268          1.36       5,360,403         13.19





25 April 2003








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