RNS Number:0845V
Stanley Gibbons Group Limited
18 April 2007

THE STANLEY GIBBONS GROUP LIMITED

("Stanley Gibbons" or "the Company")

AGM TRADING STATEMENT and DIRECTORATE CHANGE

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held in Jersey this morning all the resolutions proposed were duly passed, including the Special Resolution authorising the Company to purchase up to 15% of its issued share capital in the market for cancellation and the Ordinary Resolution approving The Stanley Gibbons Group Limited 2007 Long-Term Incentive Plan.

Commenting on current trading, the Chairman, Paul Fraser, issued the following statement:

"We have had a strong start to the year, with unaudited trading results for the first quarter being an improvement on the exceptional comparable figure for the first quarter of 2006 and in line with expectations.

Customer recruitment and international sales continue to be strong, strengthening the consistency and longevity of our profit-streams. This provides us with an ever-widening revenue base which assists in protecting us from any downside in any one particular area of our business or geographical region from a trade or currency perspective. It is encouraging that sales to the United States are growing, even on the back of a weak dollar.

As previously reported, we had nearly 3 million unique visitors to our internet sites last year. This medium is delivering ever-increasing sales, cost-effective customer recruitment and exposure of the Stanley Gibbons brand both in the predominantly English-speaking countries of the world but now also giving us penetration and exposure to developing areas (in particular the so-called BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China). Stamps are an ideal internet and mail order product, easily portable and highly valuable and a useful currency and alternative asset class on a global basis.

We have been successful in the first quarter in increasing our purchasing levels of rare philatelic material. The strength of our current stockholding puts us in a strong position to be able to satisfy rising levels of demand within the worldwide stamp market.

We continue to raise our own expectations; there is plenty to play for, and we are confident that 2007 is one more step along the way in our profitable development as a Group.

The Company's final dividend of 2.5p net per share will be paid to Shareholders on 23 April 2007 and our interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2007 will be announced on 3 August 2007.

Directorate Change

The Stanley Gibbons Group Limited announces today that Paul Fraser has informed the Board of his intention to step down as Chairman and as a member of the Board of the Company by the end of the year.

Mr Fraser has served as Chairman of the Company since it's demerger in 2000, having been involved with the Stanley Gibbons business since 1989.

Mr Fraser said: "By the end of this year I will have chaired the Board for seven years and have been involved in the collectibles business for 30 years. I therefore feel that it is an appropriate time to move on to pastures new.

Stanley Gibbons has a clear strategy with an excellent management team and I am making my intentions known to the Board in good time to allow it to run an orderly succession process"

The process to appoint Mr Fraser's successor will be led by the Board's Remuneration and Nomination Committee.

For further information:

Seymour Pierce

Jonathan Wright 020 7107 8000
Liam O'Donoghue

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