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FirstgroupAnnouncement

30/05/2017 14:30

FIRSTGROUP PLC

DIRECTORATE CHANGES

FirstGroup plc (the 'Group'), a leading transport operator in the UK and North
America, today announces the following Board changes:

Martha Poulter has been appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director
with effect from 26 May 2017. Martha brings a wealth of information technology
and business process transformation experience to the Board from her senior
executive career at General Electric (GE) and most recently at Starwood Hotels
and Resorts. In her nineteen years at GE Martha performed a number of senior
IT leadership roles, culminating in being Chief Information Officer, GE
Capital from 2010 to 2014. At Starwood Martha was Chief Information Officer
and Executive Vice President from 2014 until its combination with Marriott
International in 2016, where she was responsible for driving transformational
innovation in customer-facing and operational activities through the use of
technology.

In addition, Jimmy Groombridge is joining the Board as Group Employee Director
with effect from 26 May 2017. Jimmy has been a bus driver for just under 40
years and Employee Director of the operating company First Eastern Counties
Buses Limited for almost 15 years. He brings to the Board a wealth of employee
engagement and safety experience. Jimmy will join the Board Safety Committee.

Commenting on today's announcement, FirstGroup Chairman Wolfhart Hauser said:

“I am delighted to welcome Martha and Jimmy to the Board of FirstGroup. I am
confident that Martha’s strong background and experience in
customer-focused, technology-led businesses will be of immense value to the
Board. I also look forward to the important contribution Jimmy will make to
the Board’s deliberations, given his important and unique perspective as an
employee of the Group.”

This announcement is made pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.11R. There are no other
details required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13R.

Contacts at FirstGroup:

Faisal Tabbah, Head of Investor Relations
Stuart Butchers, Group Head of Media
Silvana Glibota-Vigo, Deputy Company Secretary
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 3354

Contacts at Brunswick PR:

Michael Harrison / Andrew Porter, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

Notes

FirstGroup plc (LSE: FGP.L) is a leading transport operator in the UK and
North America. With £5.2 billion in revenues and 110,000 employees, we
transported around 2.2 billion passengers last year. Each of our five
divisions is a leader in its field: In North America, First Student is the
largest provider of student transportation with a fleet of around 47,000
yellow school buses, First Transit is one of the largest providers of
outsourced transit management and contracting services, while Greyhound is the
only nationwide operator of scheduled intercity coach services. In the UK,
FirstGroup is one of Britain's largest bus operators running a fleet of some
6,200 buses, and we are one of the country's most experienced passenger rail
operators, carrying around 140 million passengers last year.

Our vision is to provide solutions for an increasingly congested world...
keeping people moving and communities prospering.

Visit our website at www.firstgroupplc.com and follow us @firstgroupplc on
Twitter.



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