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31 May 2006 07:00

Intellego Holdings PLC31 May 2006 31 May 2006 INTELLEGO HOLDINGS PLC ("Intellego" or "the Company") Intellego wins contract with Rightmove plc The Board of Intellego, the AIM listed training and support services business,specialising in the provision of rapid e-Learning solutions, announces today animportant new customer win with Rightmove Home Information Packs, a division ofRightmove plc, providers of the UK's number one property website. Intellego willprovide Rightmove with an e-Learning authoring and learner management solution.This will be part of Rightmove's blended distribution of Home Information Pack(HIPs) training and certification to 20,000 users across their UK wide networkof member estate-agents. From June 1, 2007, legislation will require, anyone selling a property inEngland and Wales to provide potential buyers with a Home Information Pack (HIP)With around 2 million houses put up for sale in the UK every year, and theaverage HIP estimated to cost up to £1,000, the new HIP market presents apotential £2 billion per annum opportunity. Commenting on today's announcement, Andy Green, Chief Operating Officer ofIntellego Holdings plc, who led the Company's engagement with Rightmove said: "Following their rigorous selection process we are delighted to have been chosenby Rightmove to supply this important system for their HIPs training initiative.Our solution offer which is based upon the web-based Enterprise KnowledgePlatform was determined by Rightmove as providing the optimum fit to theirspecific requirements and we look forward to working with them to ensure thesuccess of this project. Paul Creffield, Managing Director of Rightmove Home Information Packs, adds: "We are delighted to enter into a partnership with Intellego, to provide us withthe tools to deliver a comprehensive training system to our member estateagents. The introduction of HIPs is a massive change for the industry creatinga huge training requirement. Rightmove's e-Learning solution will help ensureour estate agency customers are fully equipped with the knowledge they need tosucceed in the market post implementation. Rightmove.co.uk is the 9th largest website in the UK ahead of well known brandssuch as Friends Reunited and Lastminute.com, showing that homemovers haveembraced the concept of using the Internet to buy and rent property." ---ENDS--- Enquiries : Intellego Holdings Plc Tel : 0870 428 1250Andy GreenEdward Arnett www.intellego-holdings.com Beaumont Cornish Limited Tel: 0207 628 3396Roland Cornish NOTES FOR EDITORS About Rightmove plc Rightmove plc operates a website called 'rightmove.co.uk', which is the UK'slargest residential property portal. Estate agents, rental agents and new homedevelopers pay the Company fees for the right to display details of propertiesfor sale or rent on the Rightmove website. The Website provides customers with a convenient advertising medium with wideraudience reach at lower cost than traditional print-based classifiedadvertising. The Directors believe that the large and growing number of users ofthe Rightmove Website reinforces the value to existing customers of listing onthe Website and that it makes the Rightmove Website more attractive to potentialcustomers when choosing between property portals. Between December 2003 andDecember 2005 the visits by users of the Website increased by 189 percent andthe number of customers of Rightmove.co.uk Business increased by 168 percent. The Company's principal revenue stream is derived from the rightmove.co.ukBusiness, which generated revenue of £18.2 million and operating profit (beforedevelopment and IPO costs) of £8.7 million in the year to 31 December 2005. About Intellego Intellego is a training and support services business providing e-Learningauthoring and learner management solutions Intellego provides its solutionspredominantly to organisations with large and distributed workforces, wherethere is a commitment to using web-based solutions to modernise and reduce thecost of workforce training. Intellego's authoring solutions are based upon a suite of award-winningprogramming-free software technologies, which are available exclusively in theUK and Ireland from Intellego. Because they are straightforward to learn non-technical staff employed by the user organisation can contribute to coursewaredevelopment, thereby simplifying, saving time and reducing costs in thecourseware development process. Examples of training materials that can be produced using Intellego's solutionsare; e-Learning courses for business applications based upon softwaresimulations, plus training in non IT areas such as; product information and demonstrations, regulatory compliance, internal policies and procedures, companycommunications, new product releases etc. Intellego's solutions also enable theauthoring of skills assessments that establish real-world software competenceand workforce knowledge. Intellego also supplies exclusively in UK and Ireland the NetDimensionsEnterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) Learning Management System (LMS) a robustand scaleable solution enabling the tracking and distribution of online learningmaterials, the management of all training activity. In a survey conducted byBersin Associates in 2005, of 600 LMS user organisations NetDimensionsdistinguished itself with the highest customer loyalty of any vendor. Intellego addresses all market sectors including local, central government andthe National Health Service, its' clients include; Bolton and WirralMetropolitan Borough Councils, Environment Agency, DHL, Norwich Union, OKI,Xerox and more... Intellego was established in 2002 and admitted to the Alternative InvestmentMarket (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange on 17th December 2004. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange