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22.APR.08 / ANNOUCEMENT TRADING UPDATE OMG plc, (LSE: OMG), (“OMG” or “the Group”) the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, provides the following trading update for the six months ended 31 March 2008. Trading in the first half of the year has been strong and we continue to see healthy demand for our services and technology across all of our markets. As a result, we expect to report Interim results in line with management expectations. Nick Bolton, Chief Executive Officer of OMG, commented: “The Group has continued to perform well, delivering healthy revenue growth over the same period last year. We continue to invest in Yotta, our street level imaging and highway data collection division and in our 2d3 Advanced Imaging Group. Both divisions have made excellent progress and we believe offer significant future potential. I look forward to updating the market more fully at our interim results announcement in June.” OMG will report Interim results for the six months ended 31 March 2008 on 17 June 2008. For further information please contact: OMG plc 01865 261800
About OMG Founded in 1984, the Group’s headquarters are in Oxford, UK, and it has offices in California and Colorado, USA. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through three operating subsidiaries – Vicon, the world’s biggest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for entertainment and defence applications and Yotta, our 3D mapping business, which collects and analyses highway data and street level imaging and which, following the acquisition of DCL in July 2007, offers the most accurate and complete highway survey available. Oxford Metrics’ global clients in science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film, broadcast and 3D mapping include major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector, Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA, Square Enix and in 3D mapping and highway surveys: Mouchel Parkman, Atkins, and Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others. For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com or www.yotta.tv
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