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Wigmore Group (The) PLC
09 June 2005

                     The Wigmore Group Plc (the "Company")

            Appointment of new Chief Executive and Finance Director

The Wigmore Group PLC, contractors to the hotel and leisure industries announce
today the appointment of Andrew Martin Latham, aged 42, as Chief Executive. He
has most recently served as interim Managing Director of Speymill Contracts
Limited during the start of the reconstruction of the group.

Andrew has spent his entire career in the hotel and leisure sector. He was
appointed as CEO of SFI Group in April 2002 and led the phased programme of
stabilisation and recovery of the business until leaving in late 2003. He brings
extensive experience and knowledge of the hotel and leisure sector having been
involved for much of his career in premises development and refurbishment.

The Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Keith Albert Lees
FCA, aged 53, as Finance Director. Keith is a Chartered Accountant with over 25
years experience in public and private companies in both central and operating
company roles, including considerable involvement in contracting businesses. He
has been serving as the Company's interim Group Finance Director since February
2005.

Both appointments take immediate effect.

Chairman Paul Doona said: "These appointments complete the root and branch
management restructuring that has been required to put the Company on to a sure
footing. We now have a board of immense experience including four recently
appointed non executive directors."

Save as set out below, there are no further disclosures to be made under
Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM rules.

Paul Doona
Executive Chairman                    01624 629699


Tim Blackstone
Britton Financial PR                 020 7251 2544


Jonathan Naess
Nabarro Wells & Co Limited           020 7710 7400



Andrew Latham is currently a Director of:


Lathams Dairy Ltd                                  Hospitality Action
ALE Consulting Ltd



Andrew Latham's former Directorships held within the last 5 years:


Parisa Cafe Bars Ltd                               CT Ltd
Satellite Holdings Limited                         Finsbury Taverns Ltd
Parisa Group (Holdings) Ltd                        Grosvenor Taverns Ltd
Bar Med Ltd                                        Hedgehog & HogsHead Ltd
Belcher's Brewery Ltd                              Slug & Lettuce Holdings Ltd
Belcher's Pubs Ltd                                 Slug & Lettuce Group Ltd
Bugle Inns Ltd                                     Slug & Lettuce Ltd
The Cotteridge Hotel (Woking) Ltd                  Litten Tree Ltd
Cromwell Taverns Ltd                               Starhotel Ltd
SFI Group PLC                                      Arun Inns Ltd
SF Inns Ltd                                        Isisgreen Ltd
SFI Leisure Ltd                                    The Water Poet Ltd
SFI Leasing Ltd                                    Weald Public House Ltd
SFI Developments Ltd                               Your Eyes Only Ltd
Surrey Inns Trading Ltd                            FYEO Limited
Demon Drinks Co                                    Inneroll Limited
Rapiddelta                                         Ninehams Court Residents 
                                                   Association
The Parisa Group Ltd                               Bar BQ Ltd


Keith Lees's former Directorships within the last 5 years:


Plumbs Ltd                                         Inditherm (Industrial) Ltd
Plumbs (Manufacturing) Ltd                         Inditherm (Medical) Ltd
Unravel Mills (Preston) Ltd                        Inditherm Construction Ltd
Inditherm plc



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