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DignityAnnouncement

31/07/2015 12:30

RNS Number : 7379U
Dignity PLC
31 July 2015
For Immediate Release  31 July 2015
Dignity plc
('Dignity')
Changes to the Board of Directors 
Further to its announcement on 9 June 2015 regarding the retirement of Ishbel Macpherson, one of its independent Non-executive Directors, Dignity, the listed funeral services group, is pleased to announce the appointment of David Blackwood to the Board as an independent Non-executive Director from 1 October 2015. Ishbel Macpherson will retire from the Board on that date. 
David recently retired as Group Finance Director of Synthomer plc, a leading global provider of speciality aqueous polymers. Previous to that he was Group Treasurer at Imperial Chemical Industries plc and held a number of senior positions with that group of companies over a 22 year career. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
He will take over as Chair of the Audit Committee from Ishbel Macpherson and will also become a member of the Remuneration and Nomination sub-committees of the Board. This appointment means that there will remain an equal number of independent Non-executive Directors to Executive Directors serving on the Board in addition to the Non-executive Chairman.
Under s822 of the Companies Act 2006 David does not have a notifiable shareholding in the Company. As required by Listing Rule 9.6.13, a schedule listing all current and past directorships in other publicly quoted companies held by him in the previous five years is shown below.
Current directorships
Past directorships within the last 5 years
None
Synthomer plc


There is no other information required to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13R.
 
Richard Portman
Corporate Services Director
Dignity plc
Telephone: 0121-321-5602

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