IDOX Idox Plc

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IDOX PLC
10 February 2005


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                           10 FEBRUARY 2005

                               IDOX plc ("IDOX")

                       Appointment of Martin Brooks as a
                 Non-Executive Director and Chairman Designate

IDOX plc, the information and knowledge management group, is pleased to announce
the appointment of Martin Brooks to the Board as a Non-Executive Director
effective from 9 February 2005. It is anticipated that he will assume the
position of Chairman of IDOX plc at the end of April 2005 at which time John
Wisbey, the current Chairman, will be standing down.

Martin Brooks has spent over 25 years developing successful electronic
information and publishing businesses serving professional customers. He worked
at the Financial Times between 1977 and 1988. Following this, Mr Brooks became
Managing Director of Extel Financial Ltd, the City Information company, when it
was part of United Newspapers, now United Business Media plc, where he
internationalised the business. He returned to the FT in 1993 on the FT's
acquisition of Extel, when he became a member of the FT Group Management Board
and founding Chief Executive of FT Information Ltd., now FT Interactive, and
continued there until 1998. In this position Mr Brooks grew revenues from #60
million to #130 million in 4 years and trebled trading margins. This period
included leading the highly successful acquisition of Interactive Data
Corporation in the United States. FT Interactive remains the FT's worldwide and
highly profitable financial information subsidiary.

Mr Brooks has also been a Non-Executive Director of FTSE International and
Chairman of AFX News Ltd., the English language business wire service, now owned
by Agence France-Presse, the leading French news agency.

More recently, he has held a number of consultancy and interim assignments, as
well as chairing the publishing arm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales until 2002.

Welcoming the appointment, John Wisbey, Chairman of IDOX said:

"I am delighted that we have recruited a very worthy successor to take IDOX
forward to the next stage. He has a wealth of business experience, including
very relevant experience of combining software and data in other domains to
create winning offerings. I have no doubt that he will very rapidly be able to
bring value to IDOX and to our shareholders."

Martin Brooks commented:

"I am thrilled to be joining IDOX at a very exciting time in the Company's
development. IDOX has already completed the transition from a fledgling company
to a more substantial AIM company and now has a solid foundation for growth. I
look forward to serving the Company as it continues to grow and build upon the
opportunities available to it in its chosen markets of e-government and
information management."

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For further information please contact:

John Wisbey, Chairman, IDOX plc                   T: 020 7384 5001
                                                  E: john.wisbey@idoxplc.com

Martin Brooks, IDOX plc                           T: 020 7954 3800
                                                  E: martin.brooks@idoxplc.com

Matthew Hall, Noble & Company Limited             T: 020 7763 2200
Nadja Vetter, Cardew Group                        T: 020 7930 0777

Appendix

In accordance with Schedule 2(f) of the AIM Rules, the following information in
relation to the appointment of Martin Brooks to the board of IDOX is disclosed:

Martin Richard Brooks, aged 54, holds and has held within the five preceding
years the following directorships and partnerships:

Current directorships:           The Camelot Foundation Limited
                                 Chough Media Limited

Past directorships:              Modular Concepts Limited
                                 Lafferty Publications Limited (UK)
                                 Lafferty Group Limited (Ireland)
                                 Lafferty Ireland Holdings Limited (Ireland)

Save as set out above, there is no further information to be disclosed in
respect of Martin Brooks under Schedule 2(f) of the AIM Rules.

Notes to editors

IDOX plc is a fast-growing information and knowledge management company,
specialising in the development and delivery of software products, services and
people for information management and knowledge sharing for both the public and
private sectors. The Group's focus is on managing the world of structured and
unstructured information for, and on behalf of, its clients.

The TFPL Advisory team specialises in devising creative and innovative solutions
to problems associated with records, information, knowledge and content
management. Where a skills gap is identified, the Recruitment teams place
candidates of all levels into permanent, contract, and interim management
positions. Training is also a core offering and is delivered in a variety of
formats using experienced facilitators and leading industry practitioners.

IDOX Software is one of the leading players in the local government market for
managing paper and electronic records. IDOX Software has several modules
designed to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information for use
within an organisation, and for access externally - by the public or other
partners.

The Group maintains a comprehensive database of bibliographic abstracts,
supported by the largest collection of information in the UK, on all aspects of
best practice and governance in the public sector. Expert information
professionals identify, summarise and manage a vast resource of information from
all sectors to save member organisations time and money. This outsourced library
service is available via annual subscription.

The Group has a leading position in putting the Local Government Planning
process online (its flagship Managed Services solution) and has developed the
first true end-to-end e-Planning solution for Local Authorities and their
citizens - UKPlanning.


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