M&C Saatchi PLC
02 April 2008


M&C Saatchi PLC
2 April 2008


                                M&C SAATCHI PLC
                        ("M&C Saatchi" or the "Company")


Acquisition of additional 5.5% of Walker Media Holdings Limited

M&C Saatchi is pleased to announce that it has acquired an additional 5.5% of
the issued A ordinary shares of Walker Media Holdings Limited ("Walker Media")
which includes the 4.7% held (directly and indirectly) by Phil Georgiadis. Upon
completion of this acquisition M&C Saatchi (together with its subsidiary M&C
Saatchi Worldwide Limited) will hold 100% of the share capital of Walker Media.

Walker Media is a media planning and buying company that Phil Georgiadis founded
with Christine Walker and M&C Saatchi in 1997.  Walker Media is the eighth
largest media agency in the UK, with annual billings in excess of £300 million.

M&C Saatchi has made a cash payment of £3,854,249 and will issue 854,978
additional ordinary shares of 1p each in the capital of the Company ("New
Shares"), by way of consideration.

The 854,978 New Shares are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 8 April
2008, following which the Company's issued share capital will consist of
60,516,110 ordinary shares of 1p each. Of this total, 700,000 ordinary shares
are held in treasury.

M&C Saatchi's directors, having consulted with Numis Securities Limited,
consider the terms of the transaction to be fair and reasonable insofar as M&C
Saatchi's shareholders are concerned.



Final payment for acquisition of 19.5% of Walker Media Holdings Limited

On 3 July 2007 M&C Saatchi announced that it had acquired an additional 19.5% of
the issued ordinary shares of Walker Media. This acquisition was subject to a
deferred consideration payment following the determination of the consolidated
profit for Walker Media for the financial year ended 31 December 2007. Following
the finalisation of Walker Media's accounts for the financial year ended 31
December 2007 M&C Saatchi will shortly make a final cash payment of £5,369,281,
on top of the initial consideration of £8,783,252 and issued 1,888,236 ordinary
shares of 1p each in the capital of M&C Saatchi ("Ordinary Shares").



Comment by Walker Media Chairman Phil Georgiadis

"Since we launched the business ten years ago Walker Media has proved to be an
extremely potent proposition for an enviable list of blue chip advertisers. The
future is very exciting and I am passionately committed to the next stage in our
story. We aim to grow, particularly, in the digital arena through Walker i and
to further exploit international opportunities."

For further information:

M&C Saatchi PLC                      020 7543 4500
David Kershaw, Chief Executive

Numis Securities Limited             020 7260 1000
Lee Aston
Charles Farquhar


Tulchan Communications               020 7353 4200
Celia Gordon Shute


Notes

Walker Media started trading in January 1998 as a 50:50 joint venture with M&C
Saatchi. In July 2004 M&C Saatchi acquired a further 25% of Walker Media's
shares when the Company was launched on the London AIM market. In July 2007 M&C
Saatchi acquired a further 19.5% of Walker Media's share capital.



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