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Preliminary Results For the year ended 31 March 2012 Highlights Financial · Group revenue increased by 47per cent. to £13.3m (2011: £9m) primarily reflecting additional revenue following the acquisition of Nakama in Oct 2011 · Operating profit before exceptional items, amortisation and depreciation was £232,000 (2011: £321,000) · Group loss before taxation £180,000 (2011: Profit £303,000) · Net fee income (NFI) improved by 68 per cent. to £2.74m (2011: £1.63m) · Profit margins increased again to 20 per cent. (2011: 18 per cent.) · No dividend recommended, but a resumption in future dividend payments will be kept under review

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Richard Solomons, Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, said: "We have delivered good results in the first half with RevPAR growth from all regions through gains in both occupancy and rate. Our brands continue to perform well and we have achieved solid underlying margin growth, resulting in increased profits and strong cash flows. We are increasing the interim dividend by 31% reflecting these results, our previously stated intention to rebalance the interim and final dividend payments and our confidence in the future prospects of the business. Consistent with our asset light strategy and our strong track record of returning funds to shareholders, we today announce a $1bn return of capital. This recognises the expected proceeds from the ongoing disposal of InterContinental New York Barclay and our commitment to maintaining an investment grade credit rating. We continue to invest for growth, strengthening both our existing and our new brands, including EVEN Hotels and HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts. While the global economic environment remains uncertain, IHG continues to trade well and we are confident that our strategy will deliver high quality growth into the future."

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GROUP OUTLOOK The outlook for our civil markets remains encouraging, despite the slower than expected start to the year in the aftermarket. Production of large jets is expected to continue to grow in the medium term, and we expect a return to growth in business jet and regional aircraft deliveries in 2013. Air traffic continues to grow, and while growth in 2012 looks to have moderated slightly to 4%, we expect this key driver of our civil aftermarket to grow 5% per annum over the medium term. We also believe we will see sustained growth in our business jet revenues driven by an increase in our market share and the increased ship set values resulting from the gradual transition from steel to carbon brakes. We therefore maintain our view that civil OE revenues will grow at an average of 7-8% and civil aftermarket revenues at an average of 8-9% in line with our five year guidance. In the military market, uncertainties around US DoD spending, in particular around the possibility of sequestration, are likely to affect new programme awards. However, assuming sequestration does not occur, we continue to expect 2% compound annual revenue growth in line with our five year guidance underpinned by strong positions on workhorse platforms and continued retrofit programme success. Energy, driven by heightened demand for our printed circuit heat exchangers and increasing market share in condition-monitoring equipment, should deliver revenue growth averaging greater than 15% over the five years ending 2016. Other markets should continue to see modest growth. On the basis of the above, the Group expects to make further good progress in 2012.

Terry Twigger, Chief Executive, commented: "The business delivered good top line growth in the first half, with particularly strong performances in the military and energy end markets. The work undertaken to reshape the Group with the Transformation programme over the last three years, enhanced by our ongoing focus on achieving world-class operations and programme management, leave us in excellent shape to continue to deliver good organic growth. As a sign of our continuing confidence in the prospects for the Group, the interim dividend has been increased by 12.5% to 3.6 pence."

· The Group achieved good growth in the first six months of 2012: o Revenues increased 19%, with all major end markets contributing to growth. o Underlying profit before tax increased by 15% to £168.5m. o Good momentum going into the second half of 2012, with closing order book up 8% compared to the first half of 2011. · Increased levels of investment in capex and R&D to support recent contract wins. · Net debt reduced to 1.6x EBITDA (2011: 1.9x). · Interim dividend increased by 12.5%, reflecting ongoing confidence in the business model. · PacSci has continued to trade in line with expectations. Incremental cost synergies of $4.6m were achieved in the first half, in line with the increased target run rate of $22.5m by the end of 2014. · The Group continues to expect organic(2) revenue growth of 6-7% over the medium term in line with our five-year guidance, with double-digit revenue growth in 2012 including the full-year impact of PacSci.

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Terry Twigger, CEO of Meggitt, commented: "This award follows on from a decade of successful operation of our equipment in Brazil by Petrobras and other clients. After completing the contract, Petrobras will have the largest operating inventory of this technology." Tupi BV is a joint venture between Petrobras (65%), the BG Group operator (25%) and Petrogal Brasil SA - Galp Energia (10%). GUARA BV is a joint venture between Petrobras (45%), BG Group (30%) and Repsol-Sinopec (25%).

Meggitt wins $100 million-plus heat exchanger contract from Petrobras Meggitt, a leading international company specialising in high performance components and sub-systems for aerospace, defence and energy, has been awarded a $100 million-plus contract for over 200 innovative high-performance compact printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs). These PCHEs will be for gas processing applications on Petrobras' floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels in the Lula and Guará Pre-Salt fields in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Building on the success of previous PCHE solutions delivered to Petrobras for the Lula and Guará Pilot projects, Meggitt's diffusion-bonded heat exchanger technology has been selected for its superior performance and compactness, which enables higher production capacity from the FPSO's topside space envelope and also because of its high integrity, which delivers superior safety. The PCHEs will feature in gas compression, gas injection and CO2 separation modules-26 heat exchangers for each of the eight Pre-Salt FPSOs. The contract, Meggitt's largest so far in this market segment, is with Tupi BV and Guara BV. Starting in 2012 for completion in 2017, the majority of heat exchangers will be assembled in Brazil in line with Meggitt's commitment to provide local manufacturing content where possible. A new Meggitt company, Meggitt Do Brasil, will be used to collaborate with suppliers on the ground on materials sourcing, project management, fabrication, training, aftermarket services and field support.

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Does not look like being a good day

Outlook Trading conditions have deteriorated since the start of the year, both in the UK and Far East, particularly in the second quarter and particularly in the banking and finance sectors from which we derive 27% of our net fee income. Consequently, we now expect that it will take a little longer than originally anticipated for all our new investments to reach profitability. However, as a direct result of our expertise and concentrated effort in specialist markets, we have seen improvements in revenue growth and margin in key sectors such as ERP, ESM (Enterprise Systems Management), Analytics, Digital and Retail . Our balance sheet remains healthy and we have significant headroom within our banking facilities. The Company therefore retains the ability to buy back its own shares in the market should the Board consider this in the long term interest of shareholders and is committed to maintaining its dividend. Despite current headwinds the Board remains firmly committed to its strategy and to building a strong platform for long term organic growth. We have made significant investment into the business and remain confident that our strategy will see us emerge as a much stronger IT recruitment business that is better positioned with our clients and better able to capture opportunities for growth.

Specifically, we have made deliberate and targeted investments in several areas: · We opened our first overseas office in Singapore in Q4, 2011 which now has 13 fee earners; · In February we moved all our Financial Services businesses onto a single operating platform under one business leader in a new office in Canary Wharf; · In March we established a new international business from scratch based in our London office; · In March, we migrated all of our candidate-centric recruitment business into a single, separate practice aimed at placing niche candidates into niche roles rather than just filling vacancies; · Gary Goldsmith joined us as Chief Operating Officer on 17 February; and · We have increased the number of fee earners in the Group from 169 in December 2011 to 198 currently. We have made these investments for the medium/long term at the expense of short term 2012 profit and are confident that we are building a platform for increased organic growth in the future. The combined impact on profitability of the investments and restructuring is expected to be in the region of £1.6 million for the year to 31 December 2012. We also continue to pursue our warranty claim against the vendors of CCL with vigour.

Trading Update InterQuest Group plc (AIM: ITQ), the specialist IT Recruitment Group, today provides an update on trading for the six months ended 30 June 2012 ahead of the release of its interim results on 12 September 2012. Set against a difficult market backdrop, particularly in the banking and finance sectors, the business as a whole has performed robustly growing both net fee income and gross margins over our first half performance last year. In particular the performance of the non banking and finance sectors particularly Analytics, Digital, ERP and ESM (Enterprise Systems Management) has been encouraging and the group continues to benefit from having a healthy balance of both permanent and contractor based revenue streams which mitigate volatility. However, particularly tough trading conditions in the banking and finance sector have impacted performance. For the six months ended 30 June 2012: · our net fee income is approximately 6% higher than the first half of 2011 (£7,812,000); · we have seen net fee income growth of 17% in non banking sectors compared to the first half of 2011; · our gross margin % has improved from 13.2% in the first half of 2011 to 14.9% in the first half of 2012; · EBITDA in the first half is expected to be in the region of £1.15m (2011: £1.86m) · we have seen 20% growth in permanent recruitment fees versus the first half of 2011; and · we have seen improvement in contract recruitment margins from 10.5% in the first half of 2011 to 11.5% in the first half of 2012. As noted in the announcement of our 2011 results on 6 March 2012, during the first half of 2012 we have continued the restructuring of our business to align our strategy towards sectors of the market we believe will provide us with increased opportunities for future growth.

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"Dow has a great business relationship with MuCell and we look forward to creating the new portfolio together," said Greg Bunker, Associate Marketing Director at Dow. "Foaming films is an excellent route to more sustainable packaging by reducing the usage of resin by 10-20 percent. Through this agreement, both companies are demonstrating their commitment to create superior foamed products that have less impact on the environment. The results will help our customers address their sustainability platforms and develop low environmental impact technology." This agreement follows from a similar strategic agreement from earlier this year, wherein Dow and MuCell Extrusion LLC reached an agreement for MuCell Extrusion to exclusively license Dow's patent family on flat sheet resin technology. "We provide expertise in process development and equipment packages necessary to implement the technology, and Dow offers formulation expertise in resins to streamline the process. This agreement not only marries two steps in the value chain, supply and processing, but that all of the relevant intellectual property for both film and flat sheet resin technology has now been bundled into one source," said Mark Lindenfelzer, president of MuCell Extrusion LLC. "We have no doubt that this will be a successful venture for MuCell, Dow and our clients."

Dow and MuCell Extrusion LLC Enter Exclusive Agreement to License Dow's Foamed Films Patent Portfolio Collaboration will bring higher value to both companies' customer offerings Woburn, MA and Houston, TX - Aug. 6, 2012 - Dow Performance Packaging, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), and MuCell Extrusion LLC, a 100% subsidiary of Zotefoams plc (LSE:ZTF), announced that MuCell will exclusively license Dow's Thin Foamed Films Patent family, using MuCell innovative Foaming technology to create physically foamed films for all film applications. This contract will further the two companies' relationship as innovation collaborators. The agreement not only eliminates existing confusion among potential customers as to patent and licensing obligations, but it also provides a clear demarcation of responsibilities for support of these foaming technologies. Dow will continue to offer resins specially formulated to optimize foaming results while MuCell will provide hands-on technology transfer equipment and technical support to customers.

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Commenting on the results, Nigel Howard, Chairman, said: "During the first half of 2012 we have delivered a strong performance in sales and profit growth and operating cash generation. We have made good underlying progress in the higher-growth parts of our business such as HPP and Azote® foams in Asia, supported by a robust performance across the wider portfolio of our operations which will stand us in good stead for the future."