H W TARRANT PLC

At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above-named Company, convened, and held at The Grand Hotel, Colmore Row, Birmingham, on 23rd April 1998, at 10.30 a.m., the following Resolutions were duly passed, as an Extraordinary Resolution and as an Ordinary Resolution respectively:   That it has been proved to the satisfaction of the Meeting that the Company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Roy Welsby and Andrew Michael Menzies, of Grant Thornton, Enterprise House, 115 Edmund Street, Birmingham B3 2HJ, be appointed Joint Liquidators of the Company for the purposes of the voluntary winding-up.” J. McGuire, Chairman