NOTICE UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925

INTERSERVE RETIREMENT PLAN (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS BANDT PLC RETIREMENT PLAN AND THE TILBURY DOUGLAS RETIREMENT PLAN)

IN WIND UP

Pursuant to section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925, notice is hereby given that the Interserve Retirement Plan (“the Plan”) commenced wind up with effect on and from 31 December 2005 and all members’ and beneficiaries’ benefits will be secured or transferred to alternative pension arrangements. Anyone (including, but not limited to, any former employees of Bandt Limited, Interserve Industrial Services Limited, RMD Kwikform Limited (formerly called Kwikform UK Limited), FK Multiservices Limited, Stauff Group Limited, Brown & Tawse Limited, Brown Tawse Steelstock Limited, Rapid Hire (UK) Limited and Rapid Metal Developments Limited), who believes that he or she is a member of the Plan but who has not been contacted about the winding-up, or anyone who believes they have any interest, claim or entitlement in the Plan which has not already been dealt with within the winding-up should write and provide details of their membership, interest, claim or entitlement to the Trustees of the Interserve Retirement Plan, c/o Mal Penberthy, Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited, Westgate House, 52 Westgate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 3HF. Details must be sent within 2 months of the date of publication of this notice. After expiry of the 2 month period, the Trustees will proceed to finalise and secure members’ benefits and the Trustees of the Plan shall not be liable to any person in respect of any claim, interest or entitlement he or she may have in relation to the Plan but of which the Trustees have not had notice. If you are already receiving a pension, or have received correspondence from the Plan in respect of the wind up, you do not need to write to the Trustees as they already have details about your entitlements. T Jones, signed on behalf of the Trustees of the Interserve Retirement Plan