Abacus Group plc (LSE: ABU), a leading European electronic components distributor, is pleased to announce its Interim Results for the six months ended 31 March 2008.

Oberhaching/Munich, 22 May 2008 – Abacus Group has received the 2007 “Distributor of the Year” award from EnOcean GmbH in recognition of its outstanding performance in marketing self-powered wireless sensors from EnOcean for use in building and industrial applications. Under this new international distributor award initiative, EnOcean’s French distributor Pyrecap also earned the “Shooting Star” award for best performance improvement.

Denmark, 14 April 2008. Following the expansion of operations in the Nordic region, Trident is pleased to announce the appointment of Kim Andersen as area sales manager for Denmark.

Abacus Group plc, a leading European electronic components distributor, today announces that the Group’s trading in the 6 month period to 31 March 2008 has been in line with Board expectations.

Newbury, UK, 25 February 2008. Abacus Group has signed a franchise agreement with Scottish USB interface specialist FTDI, offering its customers a new and straightforward path to upgrade a legacy serial or other interface to USB form.

Newbury, UK, 11 February 2008. Abacus today announced a new franchise agreement with Precision Devices (PDI) covering the support of precision engineered crystals, crystal filters and oscillators, VCXO’s, TCXO’s and OCXO’s throughout the UK and Ireland.

Abacus Group plc, a leading franchised distributor of electronic components in the UK and all major European countries, will hold its AGM today at 10:00am. Chairman of Abacus, Harry Westropp, will give the following trading update to shareholders for the first four months of the 2008 financial year:

Reigate, UK, 29 January 2008. Trident is pleased to announce the relocation of their UK sales office to Pilgrims Court, Reigate, Surrey, following the relocation of their stock holding to the Abacus Distribution Centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Newbury, UK, 11 December 2007. Abacus Group today announced the appointment of Alastair Worth as General Manager of TDC, with responsibility for Abacus ESGs (Embedded Systems Group) wireless teams across Europe.

Newbury, UK, 10 December 2007 – C&K Components (formerly ITT Switches) has awarded Abacus Group its Distributor of the Year Award for 2007 in recognition of the exceptional growth the Group achieved, through identifying and developing new opportunities both within existing and new customers.

Newbury, UK, 3 December 2007. Abacus Group has launched a new and very extensive range of high quality thermostat devices for industrial control, white goods and office equipment applications, following the signing of a UK representative agreement with Japanese manufacturer Asahi Keiki.

Abacus Group plc (LSE: ABU), a leading European electronic components distributor, is pleased to announce its Preliminary Results for the year ended 30th September 2007.

Newbury, UK, 26 November 2007 – For the fifth year in a row, Harting Ltd. has named Abacus Group as their number one distributor in the UK.

Newbury, UK, 5 November 2007. Abacus Group has announced a new European distribution agreement with world leading capacitor manufacturer Kemet.

Newbury, UK, 22 October 2007. Hirose has declared Abacus Group its top distributor for the second year in a row, and presented the Group with its Distributor of the Year award for 2006/7.

Deal yields increased design support for power supply engineers addressing energy-efficiency requirements in the UK

Newbury, UK, 8th October 2007. Abacus Group today announced the appointment of Martin Brooks to Group Director, Embedded Systems Group, with overall responsibility for Abacus Embedded, Trident and TDC throughout Europe.

Newbury, UK, 2 October 2007. Abacus Group today announced that Abacus Denmark and Conelec have been integrated into a single company, known as Abacus Conelec.

Newbury, UK, 24 September 2007. Abacus Group today unified the management of its distribution operations, with the promotion of Graham McBeth

Newbury, UK, 11 September 2007. Abacus Group today announced that it has signed a new pan-European distribution agreement with Amphenol Infocom covering all of the countries in which it has operations.

Newbury, UK, 13 August 2007. Abacus Group today announced that it has signed a UK franchise agreement with Samsung Semiconductor Europe, the world’s largest manufacturer of memory and second largest semiconductor manufacturer.

Redhill, 9 July 2007. Trident, one of Europe 's leading technical franchised distributors of displays, today announced the introduction of the 5.7" TFT LCD display with replaceable LED backlight from Toshiba.

Basingstoke, 9 July 2007.  TDC has added a new lower cost, compact version to its range of EnOcean wireless, battery-free rocker switches offering convenient switching of lights and other appliances in business and domestic applications.

Abacus Group plc, a leading European electronic components distributor, announces today that it is effecting a number of initiatives as part of an ongoing review of its operations. This review was driven by the expansion and integration of Group operations across Europe following the acquisitions of Deltron and Axess in the last financial year.

Newbury, 25 June 2007. Abacus Group today announced that it has signed an agreement with eASIC Corporation, a provider of Structured ASIC devices, to offer UK FPGA, ASIC and embedded systems designers with a low power consumption, low unit cost and zero NRE alternative technology.

Abacus has been presented with the Panasonic Industrial Europe UK Distributor of the Year award for 2006/7

Abacus has expanded its power conversion portfolio by announcing a distribution agreement with Aimtec of Canada, to provide Abacus customers with extra choices, added-value features and low cost of ownership when configuring power supplies for a wide range of applications and markets.

Connector manufacturer Hirose has named Abacus Group as its distributor of the year - the third time the company has been distinguished in this way.
Hirose bases its award scheme on a strict points based scoring system, where distributors are encouraged to fulfil a variety of performance criteria, including marketing, sales targets, stock holding and design projects. Abacus scored highly in all areas.

Abacus Group has been named as the Harting Ltd number one distributor for the fourth year in succession, by maintaining the very high overall business levels and share of market achieved having acquired the franchise four years ago.

Abacus Group plc (LSE: ABU), a leading European electronic components distributor, is pleased to announce its Preliminary Results for the year ended 30th September 2006.

The boards of Abacus and Deltron are pleased to announce that the Abacus Extraordinary General Meeting, the Deltron Extraordinary Meeting and the Deltron Court Meeting (together the "Shareholder Meetings"), held on 15th December 2005 in relation to the recommended offer for Deltron by Abacus, have all received the overwhelming support of their respective shareholders.

The Abacus Group is delighted to announce that it has been named as Distributor of the Year at Elektra 06, the European electronics industry awards.  The awards were presented on 15th November at a gala dinner in Munich

Abacus Group today announced the establishment of a clear and distinctive corporate identity throughout Europe.  This Europe-wide rebrand has been implemented to create a better synergy between the Group’s distribution businesses across Europe and to provide a stronger platform for continued development and growth. The re-branding exercise involved renaming many of Abacus Group’s businesses in Europe, and new distinctive yet consistent logos for all its operations.

Abacus Deltron today announced the opening of three new offices in Germany, and the addition of 14 distribution technical support and sales professionals to its team there. The announcement gives Abacus Deltron a location close to its customers throughout Germany, enabling them to provide world class service at a local level right across the region.

Abacus Group has been named as Harting’s number one distributor for the third year in succession, maintaining the very high overall business levels and share of market achieved having acquired the franchise three years ago.

On 22nd of November - For the first time, Tyco Electronics has named Abacus Norway as their number one distributor in Norway.