FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 FEBRUARY 2002

INSENSIA GROUP PLC

(OFEX)

Business: Financial Media Group

INSENSIA GROUP NOMINATED FOR BEST FINANCIAL MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE YEAR AT OFEX AWARDS 2001

Insensia Group plc ("Insensia" or "The Company") is pleased to announce that it has been nominated in the category of Best Financial Media Coverage of the year at the prestigious Ofex Awards 2001.

The Company – operators of Unquoted.co.uk (www.unquoted.co.uk), the website specialising in the Ofex and unquoted market, and its companion magazine Unquoted Magazine which covers both AIM and Ofex – has received this recognition for its consistently outstanding service to providing comprehensive, up-to-the-minute information on the small-cap markets. The other nominees in this category are The Mail and The Mail on Sunday and Financial Times.

The Company’s Corporate Adviser, Ruegg & Co Ltd has also been nominated in the Best OFEX Adviser category.

Commenting on the nomination, Insensia’s Managing Director, Alan Hutchison, said: "We are extremely proud to receive this nomination. To get recognition by the market we report on is very gratifying, especially when we are nominated alongside such established contemporaries. It shows we must be doing something right."

The winner of this and all the Ofex Awards 2001 will be announced at the awards ceremony, to be held at the Bloomberg Television Auditorium, London EC2 on the evening of Monday 18 February 2002.

Ends

Indicative dealing prices and news releases by Insensia Group plc are available via Newstrack Limited, which is in turn available through Reuters, via JPJA <Return> or OFEX01 <Return>, Thomson Financial, Bloomberg via TRAK <GO>, or via the OFEX web page at www.ofex.com.

Enquiries:

Insensia Group plc Tel 0141 572 2150

Alan Hutchison Mobile 07887 835431

Ruegg & Co Ltd Tel 020 7628 0990

Brett Miller/Joseph Marffy

Barnes and Walters Ltd Tel 020 7430 1600

Maxine Barnes Mobile 07860 489571

 

NOTES TO EDITORS:

 

  1. Insensia Group plc is a financial media group, which currently focuses on the coverage of the OFEX and AIM markets but intends to extend that to coverage of junior equity markets worldwide.

    2. The Group currently has a number of key sales channels:-

    Unquoted.co.uk a portal site for investors interested in the OFEX market and unquoted companies generally

    Unquoted Magazine – a full-colour printed magazine published monthly covering the OFEX and AIM markets

    Unquoted Angels - a business angels network and facilitation service

    Unquoted Trader - a brokerage joint venture with Jarvis Investment Management plc;

    Company Eye, a London-based publishing business which produces research-based Investor Relations documents;

    The "Company Eye Guide to Sources of Capital for Smaller Businesses" a printed guide, updated quarterly for small companies seeking finance (published by Company Eye);

    and InsensiaWeb - a software based web content-management system. 

  2. Insensia Group plc's shares commenced trading on the OFEX market on the 7th of September following a successful public offer for subscription which saw the company raise £300,200 to be used for working capital towards expansion.

  3. The website at www.unquoted.co.uk is operated by Unquoted Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Insensia Group plc, which is an independent company with no connection with J P Jenkins Ltd or any other Group companies connected to the OFEX market.

  4. OFEX is a market operated by J P Jenkins Limited (a subsidiary of S J & S Plc) a member of the London Stock Exchange regulated by the Financial Services Authority ("FSA"), which allows trading in the shares of unquoted companies.

  5. OFEX is a registered trademark of S J & S Plc

  6. Unquoted.co.uk is not authorised to and does not distribute official OFEX data

  7. Official data on the OFEX market can be accessed at J P Jenkins Ltd official market site at www.ofex.com