MAC Alpha Limited - Appointment of Avril Palmer-Baunack as Chairman

MAC Alpha

06/10/2025 07:00

RNS Number : 0641C

MAC Alpha Limited

06 October 2025

 

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MAC Alpha Limited (the "Company")

Appointment of Avril Palmer-Baunack as Chairman

 

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Avril Palmer-Baunack as Chairman with immediate effect. Avril brings a wealth of experience from executive and non-executive leadership roles in the automotive, support services, engineering and insurance services sectors.

 

Avril previously partnered with Marwyn to acquire BCA Marketplace plc in 2015, going on to complete a number of bolt-on acquisitions, with the company becoming a FTSE-250 constituent before being acquired by TDR Capital for £1.9bn in 2019. Avril remained with the company under TDR's ownership, becoming Executive Chairman of Constellation Automotive Group, including BCA, We Buy Any Car, Cinch and Marshall Motor Group.

 

Avril will work with the Board to progress the Company's investment objectives in seeking platform acquisition opportunities to ultimately deliver shareholder value.

 

James Corsellis, Director of the Company and Marwyn's Chief Investment Officer, commented: "We are delighted to be working with Avril again, and look forward to further developing acquisition opportunities together."

 

 

Enquiries: 

Company Secretary

Antoinette Vanderpuije - 020 7004 2700

MAC Alpha Limited, 11 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6DF

 

 

 

Further information on the Company can be found on its website at www.mac-alpha.com.  Neither the content of the Company's website, nor the content on any website accessible from hyperlinks on its website for any other website, is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.

 

 

Avril Palmer-Baunack (aged 61 years) currently holds or has held the following directorships in the past five years:

 

Current Directorships
Past Directorships within the past 5 years
BCA Central Limited
BCA Europe Limited
BCA Group Europe Limited
BCA Holdings Limited
BCA Limited
BCA Marketplace Limited
BCA MIP Nominee Limited
BCA Osprey Finance Limited
BCA Osprey I Limited
BCA Osprey II Limited
BCA Remarketing Group Limited
BCA Trading Limited
CAG Crux 1 Limited
CAG Crux 2 Limited
CAG Crux 3 Limited
CAG Vega 1 Limited
CAM Newco Limited
Carland.Com Limited
Constellation Automotive Financing Plc
Constellation Automotive Group Limited
Constellation Automotive Holdings Limited
Constellation Automotive Limited
Constellation Retail Group Limited
Constellation Retail Limited
Expert Remarketing Limited
Pennine Metals B Limited
Rosebank Ltd
Smart Prepared Systems Limited
The British Car Auction Group Limited
The Fab Practice Limited
We Buy Any Car Limited
ZIGUP plc
There are no past directorships to disclose.
Dissolved companies within the past 5 years
Longastre Investments and Consulting Limited - appointed as a director on 16 November 2017. The company was dissolved 11 May 2021 via voluntary strike off.


 

There are no further details to be disclosed under UKLR 6.4.8 (if such provision were applicable to companies whose shares are admitted to the equity shares (shell companies) category of the Official List) in respect of the appointment of Avril Palmer-Baunack.

 

The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Antoinette Vanderpuije, Director.

 

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