Renewi Plc Regulatory News (RWI)

9 Feb 2007 14:21

Shanks Group PLC09 February 2007 Company Announcement 9 February 2007 Shanks Group plc Board Appointments The Board of Shanks Group plc, a leading European independent waste managementcompany, is pleased to announce today two new appointments to its Board ofDirectors. Mr Eric van Amerongen is today appointed Non-Executive Director. Following theretirement of Mr Barry Pointon at the AGM in July of this year Mr van Amerongenwill also be appointed Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and will be SeniorIndependent Director. Mr van Amerongen has wide ranging European business experience having heldsenior management positions with ITT Corporation, Alcatel, Thales, LucentTechnologies and latterly as Chief Executive of Royal Swets & Zeitlinger NV. Hehas been a non-executive director of Corus plc since 2001, where he is Chairmanof the Remuneration Committee. He is also currently a member of the SupervisoryBoards of ANWB, Imtech NV, HTT NV, ASMI NV, non-executive Chairman of Lucent NLand Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Twente University in Enschede in theNetherlands and of CBR Rijswijk. Dr Stephen Riley will be joining the Board as Non-Executive Director with effectfrom 29 March 2007 and will also be a member of the Audit, Remuneration andNominations Committees. Dr Riley is currently an Executive Director ofInternational Power plc, with responsibility for Europe and has extensiveoperational experience in the power industry, having previously held positionswith National Power plc and CEGB. Mr Barry Pointon having held the position of Senior Independent Director andlatterly Chairman of the Remuneration Committee will not be seeking re-electionat the Company's AGM in July having completed almost nine years service as aDirector. Mr Philippe Delaunois having reached the age of 65 will also not be seekingre-election at the forthcoming AGM and will be standing down as a Director atthat time. Mr Paul Kaye Group Company Secretary retired with effect from 31 January 2007after twenty years of service with the Company and has been replaced by MrsCarolyn Gibson. We confirm there is nothing to disclose in respect of either Mr van Amerongen orin respect of Dr Riley pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13 (2)-(6) Mr Adrian Auer, Chairman, commented: "We are delighted to welcome these newdirectors to the Board of Shanks. Eric and Stephen will bring considerable andvery relevant business experience to the Group and the deliberations of theBoard. We also thank Mr Barry Pointon, Mr Philippe Delaunois and Mr Paul Kaye for theirsignificant contributions to the development of the Company during their timewith the Company and wish them well for the future". For further information contact: Adrian AuerChairmanShanks Group plcTelephone +44 (0)1628 554920 Or Ginny PulbrookCitigate Dewe RogersonTelephone +44(0)20 7282 2945 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange