Quarto Announces Result of Special Meeting

For Immediate Release 18 December 2012

The Quarto Group, Inc ("Quarto" or "the Company")

Quarto Announces Result of Special Meeting

At the special meeting held today to approve a change of the Company's By-laws, in order to separate the role of Chairman and Chief Executive, the resolution was passed.

Tim Chadwick is therefore appointed Chairman and Marcus Leaver is appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company, with immediate effect.

ENDS

The Quarto Group, Inc 020 7700 9004

Marcus Leaver, CEO/ Mick Mousley, CFO

Canaccord Genuity Limited 020 7523 8359

Bruce Garrow

Buchanan 020 7466 5000

Mark Edwards, Louise Hadcocks

About Quarto:

Quarto is one of the largest international co-edition book publishers with two principal strands of activity: its Publishing segment publishes books, under imprints owned by the Group; and its Co-Edition Publishing segment creates books that are licensed to third party publishers for publication under their own imprints in many languages around the world.