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RNS Number : 4664N  Howden Joinery Group PLC  07 May 2024

7 May 2024

 

HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC

("the Company" or "Howdens")

 

NOTIFICATION OF BOARD CHANGES

 

 

Howdens announces that Roisin Currie and Suzy Neubert will be appointed as
independent Non-Executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1 July
2024. Following their appointments, both Roisin and Suzy will join the Audit,
Remuneration, Nominations, and Sustainability Committees of the Board.

Roisin has been the Chief Executive of Greggs plc ("Greggs") since May 2022.
She joined Greggs as Group People Director in 2010 and later became Retail and
Property Director. Roisin began her career at Asda where she spent 20 years,
latterly as Retail People Director and then Distribution People Director. She
is also Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing Re-offending, a voluntary
role working with the Ministry for Justice and New Futures Network, and she is
a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme.

Suzy is currently a non-executive director of Jupiter Fund Management Plc,
Liverpool Victoria Financial Services Limited (where she is also Chair of the
Investment Committee), and Isio (a pensions and actuarial consultancy
business). She is also the Senior Independent Director at LondonMetric
Property plc and a trustee of the King's Trust (formerly the Prince's Trust).
Until May 2023, she held the position of Senior Independent Director of Witan
Investment Trust Plc. Suzy has previously also served as an executive
director, firstly as Managing Director of Equities at Merrill Lynch followed
by 14 years as Global Head of Sales & Marketing at J O Hambro Capital
Management Limited.

These disclosures are given in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.11R. The
Company also confirms that, following these appointments, it expects to meet
two of the three diversity targets set out in Listing Rule 9.8.6R(9)(a), those
being that at least 40% of the Board is made up of women and that at least one
individual on the Board is from a minority ethnic background.

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

Forbes McNaughton, Company
Secretary
+44 (0)207 535 1110

Mark Fearon, Director of IR and Communications
+44 (0)7711 875070

Media enquiries: Andrew Porter (Brunswick)
    +44 (0)207 404 5959

 

 

 

 

 

 

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