Directorate Change

11 Oct 2007 15:42

Appointment of new Director

Mr Richard Brooman

The Directors are pleased to announce that Mr Richard Brooman has accepted an invitation to join the Board as a non-executive Director with effect from 11 October 2007.

Richard Brooman is a Chartered Accountant. He was formerly group finance director of Sherwood International Plc. Prior to this he was finance director of VCI plc and CFO of the global consumer healthcare business of SmithKline Beecham. He has held senior financial operational positions at Mars and Price Waterhouse.

Mr Brooman is deputy chairman and chairman of the audit committee of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust Plc. That appointment is the only other directorship of a publicly quoted company that he has held during the last five years.

Mr Brooman has no beneficial interest in the shares of the Company.

There are no details required to be disclosed pursuant to 9.6.13 of the UKLA Listing Rules.

11 October 2007