RNS Number:8692P
Hot Group PLC
17 September 2003


17 September 2003


                  hot group plc ("hot group" or "the Company")

                                Holding in Company


hot group announces that following completion of the recent placing and open
offer and admission of the ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company ("Ordinary
Shares") to trading on AIM on 27 August 2003, the Company has today received
notification of the following interest in its share capital:

Name                                             Number of       Percentage of
                                           Ordinary Shares     issued Ordinary
                                                                        Shares

New Star Asset Management Limited                8,865,600                6.65


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