REG - Dunelm Group plc - Appointment of Independent NED and Chair Designate

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RNS Number : 2110T  Dunelm Group plc  21 July 2022

 

21 July 2022

 

 

 

Dunelm Group plc

 

("Dunelm" or "the Group")

 

Appointment of Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair Designate

 

Dunelm, the UK's leading homewares retailer, today announces the appointment
of Alison Brittain as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair
Designate.

 

Alison will join the Dunelm Board on 7 September 2022 and it is expected that
she will succeed Andy Harrison as Chair comfortably in advance of the expiry
of his nine year term in September 2023.

 

Alison is a highly experienced business leader who brings considerable
experience from a range of consumer-facing companies. She is currently Chief
Executive of Whitbread PLC ("Whitbread"), the FTSE 100 leisure business, a
role she has held since 2015. In this post she has been responsible for
successfully scaling the company's various hospitality brands before
overseeing the sale of its Costa Coffee portfolio in 2019. Since then, she has
refocused the Group as a pureplay hotel company, strengthening the success of
the UK business whilst developing an international platform for long term
growth. Following the recent announcement of her retirement as CEO at
Whitbread, it is expected that she will leave the business in early 2023.

 

Prior to her role at Whitbread, Alison held a number of senior roles in the UK
banking industry, serving as Group Director in the Retail Division of Lloyds
Banking Group PLC (2011-2015) and as Board Director at Santander UK PLC
(2007-2011) and Barclays PLC (1987-2007). Alison is a Non-Executive Director
of Experian plc, and has previously served as a Non-Executive Director of
Marks & Spencer Group PLC.

 

Andy Harrison, Chairman of Dunelm, said:

 

"I am thrilled to have an individual of Alison's considerable talent and
experience join our Board. Dunelm has emerged from Covid as a bigger and
stronger business, with an even bigger opportunity ahead. I am sure that
Alison will help us to unlock this potential even faster. She has strong
values that are clearly aligned to ours and I look forward to working with her
as she takes over the reins in due course."

 

Alison Brittain added:

"Dunelm is a company I have long admired as a customer and I love that it's an
entrepreneurial, purpose-led business with strong values and lots of ambition.
The last two years have reinforced the importance of the home in all of our
lives, and I am delighted to be joining a team with such a fabulous track
record of focussing on delivering value for customers and a company with
fantastic opportunity for future growth. I look forward to working with the
Board and building on Andy's achievements as Chair."

Ends

 

For further information, please contact:

 

 Dunelm Group plc                                   investorrelations@dunelm.com
 Andy Harrison, Chairman

 Nick Wilkinson, Chief Executive

 MHP Communications                                 07709 496 125
 Simon Hockridge / Rachel Farrington / Pete Lambie  dunelm@mhpc.com

 

 

Notes to editors:

1.            Details of directorships held by Alison Brittain in
publicly quoted companies in the last 5 years are set out below:

 

Whitbread PLC:
 
                2015 to date

Experian
plc:
                2020 to date

Marks and Spencer Group plc:                          2014-2020

 

2.             Alison is the beneficial owner of  37,500 ordinary
shares in Dunelm Group plc.

 

3.             Save as disclosed above, there are no disclosures
to be made pursuant to LR 9.6.13 in relation to Alison Brittain.

 

 

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