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                                                                      EXHIBIT 99

                                  PRESS RELEASE

Contact:          Darwin Patrick, VP Finance
                  (972) 443-1164
                  dpatrick@thomasgroup.com


         THOMAS GROUP, INC. ADOPTS STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS PLAN

DALLAS, Texas, July 9, 1998-Thomas Group, Inc. [Nasdaq: TGIS] (the "Company")
today announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Stockholder Rights 
Plan (the "Plan").

The Plan is designed to protect the Company from unfair or coercive takeover
attempts and to prevent a potential acquiror from gaining control of the Company
without fairly compensating all of the Company's stockholders.

The Plan creates a dividend of one right for each outstanding share of the
Company's Common Stock. The rights are represented by and initially traded with
the Company's Common Stock. There are no separate certificates or market for the
rights.

The rights do not become exercisable or trade separately from the Common Stock
unless one or both of the following conditions are met: a public announcement
that a person has acquired 15% or more of the Common Stock of the Company, or a
tender or exchange offer is made for 15% or more of the Common Stock of the
Company.

Under certain circumstances the rights entitle the holders to buy the Company's
stock at a 50% discount. In the event that (1) the Company is the surviving
corporation in a merger or other business combination with an entity that owns
15% or more of the Company's outstanding stock; (2) any person shall acquire
beneficial ownership of 15% of the Company's outstanding stock; or (3) there is
any type of recapitalization of the Company that results in an increase by more
than 1% the proportionate share of equity securities of the Company owned by a
person who owns 15% or more of the Company's outstanding stock (unless such
acquisition is made pursuant to a tender or exchange offer for all outstanding
shares of the Company, upon terms and conditions determined by a majority of the
Disinterested Directors of the Company to be in the best interest of the Company
and its stockholders (a "Qualified Offer")), each right holder will have the
option to buy $200.00 in value of the Common Stock of the Company for the
$100.00 purchase price of the right. Following the occurrence of the events set
forth above, all rights that are or, under certain circumstances, were,
beneficially owned by the acquiror will be null and void.




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Under certain circumstances the rights entitle the holders to buy shares of the
acquiror's Common Stock at a 50% discount. In the event that, at any time after
a person has acquired 15% or more of the Company's Common Stock, (1) the Company
enters is acquired in a merger or business combination transaction in which the
Company is not the surviving corporation (other than a merger consummated
pursuant to a Qualified Offer); (2) the Company is the surviving corporation in
a transaction in which all or part of the Common Stock is exchanged for cash,
property or securities of any other person; or (3) more than 50% of the assets,
cash flow or earning power of is sold, each right holder will have the option to
purchase $200.00 in value of the stock of the acquiring company for the $100.00
purchase price of the right.

The rights may be redeemed by the Company for $0.001 per right at any time until
10 business days following the first public announcement of the acquisition of
beneficial ownership of 15% of the Company's Common Stock.

The distribution of the rights will be made to stockholders of record as of July
20, 1998. Stockholders of record will receive a separate mailing describing the
Plan and a copy of the Plan containing all the provisions of the new rights will
be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by July 16, 1998. The
Company's Plan is similar to those adopted by many other companies.

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Thomas Group, Inc. is an international, publicly-traded company (TGIS) providing
solutions to significantly improve many business processes for major corporate
clients. Thomas Group's Resultants work on-site with client companies to analyze
operations, and to develop and implement speed-based improvement strategies.
Thomas Group has offices in Dallas, Detroit, Frankfurt, and Singapore. For
additional information on Thomas Group, Inc. please visit the company on the
World Wide Web at www.thomasgroup.com.





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