RNS No 2392m
INTERNET TECHNOLOGY GROUP PLC
10 September 1999
                                                                          
                               
                                
                   INTERNET TECHNOLOGY GROUP PLC
                      ('ITG' or 'the Company')
                                 
              GX Networks. worth its Waitrose in gold
                                 

ITG  (AIM:  ITH  LN), through its subsidiaries,  GX  Networks  and
Global  Internet, is the UK's largest independent Internet Service
Provider  ('ISP'). ITG announced the launch of an innovative  free
Internet   service  with  Waitrose,  one  of  the   UK's   leading
supermarket groups.

Waitrose,  the food division of the John Lewis partnership,  today
announced the launch of its new Waitrose.com service, using access
and  hosting  technologies from backbone provider, GX Networks,  a
subsidiary of ITG.

Waitrose.com  offers  customers  'free  Internet  access  with   a
difference',  with  the  net revenue  from  phone  calls  made  by
subscribers  being donated to four chosen UK charities.  Customers
will be able to log on for the cost of a local call, accessing the
most up to date and comprehensive food and wine information on the
web,  as  well as financial news, weather information  and  travel
updates.  Through the Waitrose Direct service, customers  will  be
able to buy wines, flowers and gifts via Waitrose.com, as well  as
use  the  new  Waitrose  Organics Direct service,  a  'green  box'
delivery of seasonably available fruit and vegetables.

Waitrose Marketing Director, Mark Price, explains:

'Our  customers would expect Waitrose to take a fresh approach  to
the  Internet by offering authoritative content, excellent service
and  technical  capability.  'We chose  to  develop  our  Internet
service  using GX Networks because we wanted an ISP with the  same
values  as ours - a commitment to end users and a strong focus  on
quality of service'.

Maria Cappella, General Manager for GX Networks, said:

'We  take pride in our highly resilient UK network and secure data
centres,  which  allow  GX  Networks to meet  the  most  stringent
requirements of e-business.  This has already been endorsed  by  a
number  of  our  business partners, such as  Datacash,  a  payment
gateway  company for whom we run stronghold servers and NetInvest,
another  e-commerce specialist.  We are therefore  delighted  that
Waitrose  has  chosen  GX  Networks  to  launch  the  John   Lewis
Partnership's  first venture into e-commerce, confident  that  our
service reflects their high levels of quality and reliability.'



Laurence Blackall, Chief Executive of ITG, added:

'The  product  we  have  developed with Waitrose  is  yet  further
evidence  of our ability to originate innovative branded  Internet
services  for  some of the UK's leading companies.  Following  the
hugely successful launch of freenetname last week, Waitrose.com is
another  truly  unique  Internet  product,  tailor-made   to   the
requirements  of  our  client  and utilising  the  vast  wholesale
capacity of our infrastructure.'


Waitrose.com is specifically aimed at the upper end of the market.
Reflecting the profiles and lifestyles of John Lewis and  Waitrose
customers, the site's content and style are broad-sheet as opposed
to tabloid, with news information, for example, being sourced from
The Guardian.

                                                 10 September 1999
                                                                  

Enquiries:

Internet Technology Group plc      Tel: 020 8957 1180
Laurence Blackall                  Email: lb@itg.net.uk
Richard Brocksom                   Email: rb@itg.net.uk

College Hill                       Tel: 020 7457 2020
Nicola Weiner                      Email:nicola@collegehill.co.uk
Archie Berens                      Email:archie@collegehill.co.uk


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