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DA Group purchase of own Securities.

DA Group announces that, on Friday 7th March 2003, it purchased 800,000 of its own ordinary shares at a price of 18.9 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 30,856,026 ordinary shares in issue.

400,000 of these shares were purchased from Derek J Douglas, a significant shareholder in the Company. As a result, Derek J Douglas no longer holds a notifiable interest in the ordinary share capital of the Company.

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