Change of Auditor

25th January 2019

Nasstar plc

("Nasstar", "Company" or "Group")

Change of Auditor

Nasstar (stock code: NASA), the provider of hosted managed and cloud computing services, is pleased to announce that following a competitive tender process, it has appointed Grant Thornton ("GT") as the Group's new external auditor with effect from today's date.

GT will conduct the audit of the Group's financial statements for the financial year to 31 December 2018. Any proposal to re-appoint GT in respect of the financial year beginning 1 January 2019 will be subject to shareholder approval at the 2019 AGM.

KPMG LLP has today resigned by notice to the Company under section 516 of the Companies Act 2006 and has confirmed that there are no matters connected with it ceasing to hold office that need to be brought to the attention of members or creditors of the Company for the purposes of section 519 of the Companies Act 2006.

For further information, please contact:

Nasstar plc +44 (0) 1952 225 000

Nigel Redwood, Chief Executive Officer

Niki Redwood, Finance Director

finnCap Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker) +44 (0) 20 7220 0500

Julian Blunt, James Thompson (Corporate Finance)

Alice Lane (Corporate broking)

IFC Advisory (Financial PR) +44 (0) 20 3934 6630

Tim Metcalfe

Graham Herring

About Nasstar plc

Nasstar (www.nasstar.com) and its wholly owned operating businesses provide hosted managed and cloud computing services, integrating private and public clouds supplying a robust, secure and stable hosted Information Technology service to business customers. The Group provides a true end to end service for clients providing them with enhanced IT performance and greater cost control over their IT function. The Group owns its primary data centre, is head quartered in Telford with regional offices in Northampton, London and Bournemouth whilst 24 x 7 support is delivered from its Auckland office in New Zealand. Nasstar is an accredited Microsoft Gold Partner, is the 2016 Citrix Networking Partner of the Year and is certified to ISO 27001.

Nasstar specialises in building bespoke cloud hosted services to manage a client's entire application set, tailor made to suit specific industries, designing public, private and hybrid cloud solutions to meet the objectives of the client. The solution is a highly scalable service that provides benefits including "Anywhere Access" to computing; a standardised corporate solution that can be accessed globally in multiple languages; generating cost savings when compared to the traditional IT ownership model whilst replacing capital expenditure with a simple usage based payment model.

Nasstar (AIM: NASA) was founded in 1998, admitted to AIM in December 2005, acquired e-know.net Limited in a reverse takeover in January 2014, Kamanchi Limited in July 2014, VESK in October 2015 and Modrus Limited in September 2016.

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