12:03:03

DA Group announces that, on Tuesday 11th March 2003, it purchased 850,000 of its own ordinary shares at a price of 19 pence per share.

This is in accordance with the authority to make market purchases of shares granted by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 3 October 2002.

The shares will be cancelled. Following this cancellation, DA Group will have 30,006,026 ordinary shares in issue.

500,000 of these shares were purchased from Colin McNab, a significant shareholder in the Company. As a result, Colin McNab now holds 1,887,144 ordinary shares in the Company,
representing approximately 6.12% of the Company's existing issued ordinary share
capital (or 6.29% of the issued ordinary share capital following cancellation of
the shares concerned).

Enquiries:
Paul McCaffrey, Finance Director,
Elizabeth Lambley, Indigo PR,