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Operational Highlights · Very strong sales growth in UK and Rest of Europe (+22% over H1 2011) · 88 new customer contracts signed (H1 2011: 74). 44 new customers each for Macclesfield and Watertown operations · Three new strategic customers (i.e. each with expected 12 month revenues in excess of £250,000) · Expansion of US operations to double previous footprint completed · New customers and new offerings to meaningfully impact revenues in H2 2012 · Significant investment in workhorse instrumentation. Continuing investment is essential to keep Cyprotex at the forefront of analytical technologies o New upgraded mass spectrometers (two in the period and three in the last 12 months at a total cost of £471,000) o Investment in a new robotic screening platform (TECAN EVO 200) complete · Strategic deal announced with Sirius Analytical Instruments Limited to co-market physical chemistry services Post-Period Update · Today, Cyprotex announces the promotion of Dr. Clive Dilworth to CSO. Dr. Katya Tsaioun has decided to step down as CSO and from the Board after two years in post · The Company also recognises excellence in its staff by announcing the promotion of Dr. Bodo Spori to Executive Director of Sales, Mr. Jon Gilbert to Executive Director US Operations and Dr. Laura Hinton to Director of Scientific Operations UK · Strategic deal announced today: o Deal with InSphero AG to co-market their proprietary 3D InsightTM liver microtissue technologies · New upgraded and improved high content toxicology technology, CellCiphrTM Premier, to be launched in September 2012 · Imminent launch of modified cell transporter assays based on licensed proprietary technology

Strategic expansion in leading edge technologies Cyprotex PLC (LSE: CRX), the specialist preclinical contract research organisation (CRO), today reports its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2012. Financial Highlights · Revenues up 5.1% to £3.72m (H1 2011: £3.54m) · Revenues in Europe including UK up 21.6% · Reliance on any one individual large customer remains low at 13% of revenues · EBITDA of £89,000 (H1 2011: £261,000) · Operating loss of £189,000 (H1 2011: profit £23,000). · Cash used in operations at £142,000 (H1 2011: generated £101,000)

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Andy Harrison, Chief Executive of Whitbread comments: "Whitbread has continued to deliver good sales growth with total sales up 14.8% in our second quarter. Our brands have outperformed in a tough economic climate, with like for like sales growth of 4.2% and we have continued our network expansion at Costa and Premier Inn. Premier Inn, the UK's leading hotel chain, outperformed its competitive set in the second quarter, with total sales growth of 13.0% and total revpar*2 growth of 1.9%, compared to a revpar decline of 4.3% in the Mid-scale and Economy*3 segments. As expected, the Olympics provided a modest benefit, primarily through increased room rate, with occupancy slightly down on last year. The cap on our London prices, to maintain Premier Inn's positioning for great value, constrained revpar growth. Restaurants continued to improve, benefitting from a wide range of management actions, driving an increase in like for like sales of 4.9%. Costa, the UK's favourite coffee shop, had yet another strong quarter with like for like sales up 5.7% and total sales up 25.3%, as we continue to grow at pace in both the UK and selected overseas markets. The economic challenges and variable trading month by month continue. We remain on track to deliver our ambitious growth programme, with our strong brands winning market share."

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CONT The Group is currently undertaking active discussions regarding potential new business opportunities with gas suppliers, other market participants, and end user consumers requiring a fully integrated Metering, AMR, and Siteworks service provision. Trading in the current financial year remains in line with management expectations and the commentary provided in our Interim Management Statement issued on 24 July 2012. Overall, the business outlook for 2012/13 remains positive and the Group remains well positioned to take advantage of the opportunities arising from regulatory changes in the UK I&C gas market and the desire of end-user consumers to improve the efficiency of their energy usage."

AGM and Trading Update Energy Assets Group plc (LSE: EAS.L), the largest independent provider of industrial and commercial ("I&C") gas metering services in the UK (by number of meters owned and managed), will be holding its first Annual General Meeting as a Premium Listed Company on the Main Market of the LSE at 11am today. Chairman, Dr Chris Masters, will be making the following statement to shareholders: "2012 has been a momentous and successful year for the Group with the IPO in March raising net primary proceeds of £11.7 million and supporting further investment in the asset portfolio in the current year. We continue to expand our I&C metering portfolio and increase market share in line with our primary strategy and the metering portfolio owned and managed has increased by 11% since the year end to c.69,500 assets, of which c.54,500 are I&C meters, and by 32% from c.53,000 assets over the 12 months since 31 July 2011. The Group's metering assets are now spread across 23 gas suppliers who represent over 80% of the UK I&C gas market by volume of gas supplied.

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Outlook Over the years the Group, through the vision, versatility and commitment to hard work of all of its people, has demonstrated an ability to overcome challenges posed by economic conditions, and to emerge stronger. The current economic downturn has been the most severe in recent history. Nevertheless, the Group continues to grow profitably through a combination of innovative service offerings, expansion organically and by acquisition, the delivery of high quality service to clients and candidates, and careful management of costs. Although accurate forecasting is very difficult in current conditions, and the markets in which we operate remain challenging, we expect the continued application of these strategies to deliver some further profitable growth in the months ahead.

John Hennessy, Chairman commented: "At the end of a challenging year, I am pleased to report that the Group has responded positively to difficult trading conditions, identified opportunities presented by the changed environments in the markets in which we operate, and has consequently been able to deliver growth and improved profitability across the business. Cpl has a strong balance sheet, with net free funds at year-end of €28 million. These balances remain after payments to shareholders totalling €21.8 million during the year to 30 June 2012." Anne Heraty CEO added: "The Cpl Group is dedicated to providing businesses and individuals with a high-quality, comprehensive and integrated service. Our clients value our commitment to flexibility and appreciate the talents and skills we offer them now more than ever. We are encouraged by the increase in demand for our services. 2012 was a year of significant progress for Cpl. Our revenue was the highest in the company's 22 year history and we have again demonstrated resilience in difficult market conditions. Our focus will continue to be on looking for opportunities in those sectors and geographies that are doing well, while continuing to monitor carefully our cost base."

Results for the Full Year Ended 30 June 2012 Dublin, 6 September 2012: Cpl Resources plc (the 'Group' or the 'Company'), Ireland's leading employment services group, today announced results for the year ended 30 June 2012. Full Year Highlights · Record revenues of €290 million, up 23% on last year · 39% increase in operating profit to €10.0 million · Earnings per share increased by 33.33% to 25.6 cent) · Total dividend per share of 6.5 cent (2011: 5.0 cent) · Return of €20 million to our shareholders

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Outlook We have continued to outperform the software testing market during the period giving further evidence of the success of our strategy to focus on Managed Services. This strategy, which is to grow Managed Services to at least 40% of total revenues, is delivering increased visibility and improved margins and these benefits will continue to improve as contracts mature further. Our initiative to focus on value based pricing for higher value services is expected to lead to improved gross margins and this, together with the recent successful completion of our investment activities, gives us confidence in further improved cash flow and reduced net debt going forward. Although continued economic uncertainties require us to remain cautious, in line with previous years, we expect operating margins to improve during the second half and we are therefore confident of meeting full year market expectations.

Diederik Vos, the designated Chief Executive Officer of SQS, commented, "We have continued to outperform the software testing market during the period giving further evidence of the success of our strategy to focus on Managed Services. This strategy, which is to grow Managed Services to at least 40% of total revenues, is delivering increased visibility and improved margins and these benefits will continue to improve as existing contracts further mature. "Our initiative to focus on value based pricing for higher value services is expected to lead to improved gross margins and this, together with the recent successful completion of our investment activities, gives us confidence in further improved cash flow and reduced net debt going forward. "Although continued economic uncertainties require us to remain cautious, in line with previous years, we expect operating margins to improve during the second half and we are therefore confident of meeting full year market expectations."

Operational Highlights: · Revenues from Managed Services contracts almost double the same period last year at €34m (H1 2011: €17.9m), now accounting for 33% of total revenue (H1 2011: 19%) · Gross margin from Managed Services contracts improved by 5.5% to 29.9% (H1 2011: 24.4%) · Adjusted* EBIT margin improved to 4.1% (H1 2011: 3.6%) despite additional costs of €1.1m incurred in recruiting consultants, redundancy costs on certain overheads and start-up costs of the US business · Number of permanent consultants increased by 9% to 1,826 (31 Dec 2011: 1,675) · Transfer of responsibility to new CEO completed and well received by clients and internal organisation

Results for the six months ended 30 June 2012 SQS Software Quality Systems AG (AIM: SQS.L), the world's leading specialist in software quality services, today announces its unaudited results for the six months ended 30 June 2012 (the "period"). Financial Highlights: · Turnover increased by 7.9% to €102.8m (H1 2011: €95.3m) · Gross profit up 10.4% to €31.5m (H1 2011: €28.6m) · Adjusted* PBT increased by 18.6% to €3.3m (H1 2011: €2.8m) · Adjusted** EPS €0.09 (H1 2011: €0.09) - due to return to more normal tax rate of 24% (H1 2011: 13%) · Operating cash flow improved to €3.1m (H1 2011: cash outflow of €1.3m) · Net debt as of 30 June reduced 15% to €14.3m (H1 2011: €16.8m) *adjusted to add back €0.8m of amortisation of intangible assets of acquired companies and €0.03m pro forma interest on deferred payment milestones for acquisitions. ** adjustments under * and an add back of €0.3m for deferred tax income.

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Outlook Overall, the outlook remains promising. We anticipate a good second half performance across the four divisions and expect that the full year result will meet management's expectations.

Commenting on the results, Ken Randall, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer said: "This is a pleasing set of interim results during a period when the Group also achieved a number of significant operational milestones. Our Lloyd's and non-USA run-off businesses continue to deliver good results. The claims run-off within our US subsidiaries has tended to be more volatile but the agreement reached with the Ace group as to a framework for the resolution of all outstanding legal disputes removes this source of uncertainty for the Group. The Group has made a number of attractive portfolio and insurance debt acquisitions and the deal pipeline remains very active. Randall & Quilter has made significant progress in fulfilling its ambition to become a growing force in the active insurance market by successfully expanding its managing general agent and 'live' servicing operations, and receiving an 'in-principle' approval from Lloyd's for the establishment of the Group's 'first party' syndicate for the 2013 underwriting year. Regulatory changes and the low yields available on fixed income investments continue to affect the Group but are being effectively managed. The Group's traditional run-off core remains in good shape and the newer Underwriting Management and Captives divisions offer significant growth potential. We look forward to the future with confidence."

DIVISIONAL PERFORMANCE · Strong performance in the Insurance Investments Division with an operating profit of £6.4m* (2011: £3.2m), driven by the run-off syndicate results and an H1 investment return of 2.7% (2011: 2.5%) · Improved operating profits in the Insurance Services and Captive divisions of £2.3m and £0.5m respectively (2011: £2.0m and £0.1m**) · A positive underlying operating result in the Underwriting Management Division (excluding the losses from the discontinued Canadian MGA) · Further potential expansion into the live market following 'in principle' approval from Lloyd's for the launch of our own 'first party' R&Q syndicate from January 2013 · Agreement in principle reached with the Ace Group to resolve all outstanding legal disputes in relation to R&Q Re (US) * After deduction of minority interest relating to syndicate 3330 ** Excludes goodwill impairment