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International Marketing & Sales Group Limited

Non-Executive Board appointments

International Marketing & Sales Group Limited (AIM: IMSG), the emerging markets
focused sales and marketing company, today announces that Thomas Heldge Rud Gad
and Simon James Crookenden Dunlop have been appointed as Non-Executive Directors
of the Board with immediate effect.

IMSG is building its business in Scandinavia and is considering a listing on The
OMX Nordic Exchange and is therefore undertaking to appoint two Swedish
directors to the Board. Thomas Gad is the first of these appointments. Simon
Dunlop is a Russian speaker who has worked in senior sales and marketing
positions in Russia for a number of years and in particular, has considerable
Trade Marketing expertise to bring to the Board.

Mr. Gad, aged 57, is founder and director of Stockholm based Brandflight AB, a
brand strategy consultancy and a branding advisory company with offices in
Stockholm, London, Moscow, Hamburg, Paris and Johannesburg. He has worked on
brand development, communication and advertising for some of the best known
companies in the world, including Nokia (where he co-created the famous slogan
"Connecting People"), SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Procter & Gamble, Compaq,
Microsoft, Telia, SEB, and Nordea. Thomas is the author of the bestselling '4-D
Branding' published in 2001 and the co-author of 'Managing Brand Me', published
in 2002. As well as writing, Thomas gives lectures on branding across the world
and he is the founder of Medinge Group, an international think-tank on branding.
Thomas was Creative Director at Grey Advertising for 17 years.

Mr. Dunlop, aged 40, is a founding partner and director of EmCo Capital Partners
Ltd., a private equity investment group based in Moscow and focused on the
Russian consumer market. Simon is also Chairman of Russian Cinema Holdings Ltd.,
one of Russia's leading regional operators of multiplex cinemas and bowling
alleys and co-founder and Chairman of Greenleaf Ingredients OOO in Russia.
Previously, until 2006, Simon was Director of Strategic Planning of Bridgetown
Snackfoods OOO, one of the leading manufacturers of snackfoods in the CIS, which
he co-founded in 1999. Simon's past appointments also include Head of Sales,
distribution and logistics for Philip Morris Russia, where he developed and
implemented a sales and distribution strategy for the full portfolio of PM
products in Russia.

Greg Thain, Chairman and CEO of IMSG commented "I am delighted to welcome Thomas
and Simon and to the Board of IMSG. Thomas has worked on brand development,
communication and advertising for some of the world's best known companies and
Simon is a successful entrepreneur with considerable experience in the Fast
Moving Consumer Goods sectors. I have no doubt that their experience and
expertise will be invaluable to IMSG as we work towards our goal of becoming the
10th largest marketing services group worldwide by 2010."

The contents of this announcement together with the appendix include the full
disclosures required under Schedule 2, Para (g) of the AIM Rules.

Enquiries

Lau Geckler
International Marketing & Sales Group Limited      Tel: + 7 495 796 6141

Emily Bruning/Andrew Best
Shared Value Limited                               Tel: +44 (0)20 7321 5010

Mark Williams / Andrew Chubb
Canaccord Adams Limited                            Tel: +44 (0)20 7050 6500

Notes to Editors

    --  IMSG was founded in 1996 by its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
        Gregory Thain.

    --  The Group was admitted to trading on AIM on 6 December 2005.

    --  Since 2002, the EBITDA of the Group has grown at a rate in excess of
        100% per annum. IMSG has been profitable since 2000.

    --  The Group's clients include multinational and first tier local companies
        operating in FMCG, telecommunications, retail trade, banking and
        finance, automotive, consumer electronics and pharmaceutical industries.

    --  IMSG currently has 30 offices in emerging markets: Moscow, Saint
        Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk,
        Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Krasnodar (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine), Almaty Astana
        (Kazakhstan), Istanbul (Turkey), New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai,
        Kolkata, Hyderabad (India) and Budapest (Hungary), Athens (Greece),
        Bucharest (Romania), Sofia (Bulgaria);

    --  Further information about the Group is available on its website at:
        http://www.imsg.co.uk

Appendix

Additional information relating to Schedule 2 (g) of the AIM Rules:

Mr. Thomas Gad

Current Directorships
Brandflight AB
Brandflight Ltd
Differ AB
Differ Ltd
Garde Security International AB
Festival Fondservice AB
Tele 5 Voice Service AB
Festival Fondservice AB
Vitrina A OOO
Moneko OOO

Mr. Simon Dunlop

Current Directorships
EmCo Capital Partners Ltd.
EmCo Kino Investors Ltd.
Russian Cinema Holdings Ltd.
Greenleaf Ingredients OOO

Previous Directorships (in the last 5 years)

Bridgetown Foods OOO

Optigen Ltd. - an administrator was appointed to manage a Creditors Voluntary
Administration (CVA) over the company while Mr. Dunlop was a director. The
company was subsequently released from the CVA and all funds returned to
creditors in full.

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