Final stage of 3.0 launched

19 September 2013

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blur (Group) Plc

("blur Group" or the "Company")

blur Group announces final stage of 3.0

Re-architected expert platform allows single sign-on and introduces 'my blur' page

blur Group, the company that is reinventing commerce at blurgroup.com has re-architected its expert community platform as the final phase of the rollout of blur 3.0

blur 3.0 is the s-commerce technology platform that powers blur Group's 'Global Services Exchange' enabling the buying and selling of business services. The new platform is a streamlined way to buy business services entirely online.

This upgrade process is part of the continued industrialization of the platform and is designed to deliver a more unified, scalable and streamlined platform for both buyers and sellers.

The most significant feature of this final element of the release is single sign on, giving expert service providers seamless integration between the exchanges and their trading account.

Experts will now have a personal homepage, 'My blur", which will act as the gateway to all of the exchanges they are a member of, their trading accounts, previous pitches and current projects, as well as allowing them to more quickly join new blur exchanges.

The new architecture also opens the way to even more exciting functionality and greater integration of services and applications to further enhance the user experience for all Experts.

Philip Letts, blur Group CEO said " This upgrade of the expert community features to blur 3.0 is all part of our continuous drive to deliver a world class user experience for our global ecosystem. It allows us to more rapidly add new features and drive the future growth of our expert service providers way beyond the current 30,000."

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About blur (Group) plc at blurgroup.com

blur Group is a technology company reinventing how businesses do commerce at blurgroup.com. Its Global Services Exchange delivers services differently: a new way to buy, manage and pay for core services. Approaching 35,000 businesses in 141 countries have adopted this s-commerce platform and changed the way they work.

blur Group (BLUR) is a public company headquartered in the UK with offices in the US and Europe. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. blur was founded in January 2006 and launched in alpha in 2007 with the full, formal launch of the Global Services Exchange in January 2010. At that time, just over three projects per month were submitted. Now, almost 200 projects start on the exchange each month. Customers include Danone, Broadridge, Coral, Exceed, HCA, Momentive, Red Commerce, the Financial Times, Berlitz, Butlins, GE Healthcare and Tyco. Over the same time, average project value has grown from approximately $1,500 in 2010 to $22,943 in Q2 2013.

Today, over 2,500 projects have been submitted with a combined value of above $48.0 million. These have come from the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia with over 30,000 expert service providers on eight exchanges responding to them.