LONDON, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Advances UBM's Indian Growth Ambitions With Senior Appointment

United Business Media Limited (LSE: UBM) announces that Sanjeev Khaira 
has been appointed Managing Director (Print, Data & Online) of UBM's 
publishing and online operations in India. In his new role, Sanjeev Khaira 
will lead UBM's efforts to build a leading position for UBM in India's 
rapidly growing business-to-business media market, a market with enormous 
growth potential. The role is complementary to UBM's existing successful and 
fast-growing businesses in India - UBM India's exhibition business, 
CMPMedica's pharmaceutical and medical media business and PR Newswire's (news
distribution) newly-established Mumbai operations.

Sanjeev Khaira is currently Publishing Director of Property Week and the
Building Services Portfolio, one of UBM's most significant UK-based media
businesses. He will transfer to UBM India's Head Office in Mumbai to take up
his new role from 1 September 2008.

Sanjeev Khaira will report to CMP Asia, UBM's Hong Kong-based subsidiary.
Announcing the appointment, Jimé Essink, Chief Executive Officer of CMP Asia
said:

"UBM India is now one of UBM's fastest-growing revenue contributors,
alongside our China business. UBM opened its first office in Mumbai back in
April 2006 to support CMP Asia's first exhibition there and we now have
offices in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai. In just two years, we have grown
and invested in UBM's businesses in India substantially - we are now the
country's largest commercial trade fair organiser. India continues to provide
us with great opportunities for the future and we look forward to taking our
Indian business forward in print and in online media, building on our strong
local market presence and customer base, our innovative team and by
harnessing our global talents and capabilities. I am confident that Sanjeev
will make a great success of advancing our focused growth in India."

Sanjeev's success has been widely recognised by his peers in the UK
publishing market and in the last two years, both Property Week and Building
Services Portfolio have both been named as the PPA weekly and monthly
magazines of year; Sanjeev was also recognised in this year's awards as the
UK's B2B Publisher of the year. Under his leadership, Property Week has
secured its position as one of the leading B2B brands in the UK and has
spawned a number of highly profitable and creative brand extensions.

In his new role, Sanjeev will report into Michael Duck, Senior
Vice-President of CMP Asia. Sanjeev's brief will include organic launches,
acquisitions as well as geo-cloning and brand extensions of appropriate UBM
brands into this market - print, online, data, conferences and awards. He
will work closely together with M. Gandhi, Managing Director for UBM India
(Exhibitions) who will focus on the further growth of the company's
successful exhibition business.

A downloadable format of the press release is available at the United
Business Media and CMP Asia websites at http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
and http://www.cmpasia.com.

Notes to Editors

1. About United Business Media Limited

United Business Media Limited is a leading global business media company.
We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at
events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business
successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from
doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from
farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30
countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities,
helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and
efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.

Contacts

    Media
    Peter Bancroft     Director of Communications, UBM
    E-mail             communications@ubmgroup.biz
    Direct telephone   +44-20-7921-5961
 
    Jennifer Law       Director of Communications, CMP Asia
    E-mail             jenniferlaw@cmpasia.com
    Direct telephone   +852-2516-1691
 
    Analysts/Investors
    Email              investorrelations@ubmgroup.biz
    Direct telephone   +44-20-7921-5095
    Nigel Wilson       +44-20-7921-5019
    Andrew Crow        +44-20-7921-5940