Directorate Change

The Quarto Group, Inc.

15 November 2012

Directorate Change

As announced on 7 November, 2012, Timothy Chadwick has been appointed to the Board of Quarto as

Director and Chairman Designate.

Timothy's previous experience includes 6 years at Macmillan Publishers, 10 years as Founder and Executive

Chairman of Aurum Press Ltd. and 6 years as founder and Executive Chairman of All Books for Children (ABC) Ltd.

In the last 5 years Timothy has held the following Directorships in publicly quoted companies:

Simon Group plc - Executive Chairman

First Artists Group plc - Director

ACM Shipping plc. - Director

Madara Bulgarian Property Fund - Executive Chairman

No further information is required to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13 except as set out above.

For further information please contact:

The Quarto Group Inc 0207 700 9004

Marcus Leaver, COO, Mick Mousley, CFO

Buchanan 0207 466 5000

Mark Edwards, Louise Hadcocks

About Quarto:

Quarto is one of the largest international co-edition book publishers with two principal strands of activity: its Publishing segment publishes books, under imprints owned by the Group; and its Co-Edition Publishing segment creates books that are licensed to third party publishers for publication under their own imprints in many languages around the world.