Site Visit

22 November 2013

Ultra Electronics Holdings plc

("Ultra" or "the Group")

Site Visit

Ultra, the international defence, security, transport and energy group, will today be hosting a site visit for analysts to its Nuclear Control Systems division in Wimborne, Dorset.

No material new information will be disclosed during the event and no update on current trading will be provided.

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Enquiries:

Rakesh Sharma, Chief Executive 020 8813 4307

Mary Waldner, Group Finance Director

Susan Ellis, Senior Communications Adviser 07836 522 722

James White, MHP Communications 020 3128 8756

Ultra Electronics is an internationally successful defence, security, transport and energy company with a long, consistent track record of development and growth. Ultra businesses constantly innovate to create solutions to customer requirements that are different from and better than those of the Group's competitors. The Group has about one hundred and eighty distinct market or technology niches within its twenty-nine businesses. The diversity of niches enables Ultra to contribute to a large number of platforms and programmes and provides resilience to the Group's financial performance.

Ultra has world-leading positions in many of its niches and, as an independent, non- threatening partner, is able to support all  of  the  main  prime  contractors with  specialist capabilities and solutions. As a result of such positioning, Ultra's systems, equipment or services are often mission-critical to the successful operation of the platform to which they contribute. In turn, this mission-criticality secures Ultra's positions for the long-term which underpin the superior financial performance of the Group.

Ultra offers support to its customers through the design, delivery and support phases of a programme. The Group's businesses have a high degree of operational autonomy where the local management teams are empowered to devise and implement competitive strategies that reflect  their  expertise in  their  specific  niches. The Group has  a  small  head  office  and executive team that provide to the individual businesses the same agile, responsive support that they provide to customers as well as formulating Ultra's overarching, corporate strategy.

Across the Group's three divisions, the major market sectors in which Ultra operates are:

Defence: Ultra  supplies  advanced  electronic  and  electrical  systems  and  equipment  to coalition  defence  forces  around  the  world.  The Group  innovates  to  provide  specialist capabilities that are superior to those available to the enemy. By focusing on delivering comparative military advantage, Ultra can gain market share and exploit the headroom for growth that is available in defence budgets worldwide.

Security and cyber: Ultra provides highly differentiated systems and capabilities to the broad security, intelligence and cyber market. Driven by the actions of rogue states, terrorist groups and  organised crime,  governments worldwide are  focusing  expenditure preferentially on addressing these threats. Ultra has highly specialised capabilities in secure communications, networks  and  high-grade  cryptographic  equipment,  key  management  systems  and surveillance and intelligence gathering systems.

Transport: Ultra  provides  specialist  software,  systems  and  equipment  for  use  in  mass passenger transport systems. This includes high integrity real-time controls for civil aircraft, advanced IT solutions for modern airports and trackside power equipment for transit rail systems. Demand in these areas, is driven by rising populations in affluent and developing regions of the world.

Energy: Countries around the world are addressing the strategic need to have secure access to increasing amounts of low carbon energy. Ultra has a range of safety critical sensors and controls used in existing and new build nuclear reactors. The Group has innovative portable energy sources powered by readily available propane gas. Ultra also has specialist sensors, derived from defence applications, which are highly effective in the underwater environment at hydrocarbon mapping.