FAN Volution Group Plc

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First Artist Corporation PLC
06 September 2007


                          First Artist Corporation plc

                        ("First Artist" or "the Group")


                 The Finishing Touch Signs Major Contract with

                The Training and Development Agency for Schools


First Artist Corporation plc, the integrated marketing, sport and entertainment 
management group, today announces that it has signed a three year contract 
through its event management subsidiary, The Finishing Touch, with the Training 
and Development Agency for Schools (TDA).  Included within the contract is the 
option to extend for a further two years.


The Finishing Touch will be responsible for delivering the TDA's training events
programme aimed at "securing an effective school workforce that improves
children's life chances".


The Finishing Touch has an established relationship within the public sector,
having worked with a division of the TDA over the past four years. In the
Group's audited accounts for the 10 months to August 2006, the contribution to
First Artist revenues from the public sector totalled #1.4 million. Management
expectations are that this new enhanced contract, which will commence
immediately, will be materially larger than this on an annual basis.


The TDA is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for
Children, Schools and Families. It also has a close working relationship with
the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.


Richard Hughes, Group Managing Director of First Artist, commented:


"We are delighted to be awarded this contract as it represents a considerable
development in the relationship with the TDA and comes at the end of an extended
and particularly competitive tendering process. It is a clear endorsement of the
quality of work that The Finishing Touch undertakes and we look forward to
further developing our successful partnership with the agency".


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Enquiries

First Artist Corporation plc
Jon Smith, Chief Executive
Richard Hughes, Group Managing Director                 Tel: +44(0) 208 900 1818


Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial
Ann-Marie Wilkinson / Peter Otero                       Tel: +44(0) 207 861 3232


Dawnay, Day Corporate Finance Limited
David Floyd                                             Tel: +44(0) 207 509 4570






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