Lookers PLC Board Appointment (6365J)
June 29 2017 - 10:11AM
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RNS Number : 6365J
Lookers PLC
29 June 2017
29 June 2017
Lookers plc
Board Appointment
Lookers plc ("Lookers" or "the company") announces that Stuart
Counsell has been appointed as a non-executive director of the
company and chairman of the audit and risk committee with effect
from 29 June 2017.
Stuart had a long and successful career with Deloitte where he
spent over 30 years, during which time he held a variety of senior
management positions including Managing Partner of the 17 UK
Regional offices and latterly Managing Partner Finance and Legal.
As Managing Partner Finance and Legal, he was responsible for the
financial and legal aspects of a GBP2 billion professional services
business. Stuart also spent time at Deloitte as Deputy to the Chief
Executive with a specific mandate around operational excellence.
Stuart is also a non-executive board advisor to the law firm Walker
Morris, non-executive chairman of Henderson Insurance Brokers
Limited and non-executive chairman of Singleton Birch Limited.
Phil White, Chairman of Lookers, said: "Stuart has significant
financial expertise in one of the leading accounting and
professional services businesses in the UK and his knowledge will
be of great benefit to Lookers, particularly in his role as
chairman of the audit and risk committee.
Together with all my colleagues on the board, I would like to
welcome Stuart to Lookers and I believe he will make a valuable
contribution to the continued development of the company."
Listing Rule 9.6.13R(6) requires disclosure that in 1995, Stuart
Counsell was criticised, along with others at Touche Ross, by the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, for his
part in that firm's role as reporting accountants and auditor to
James Ferguson Holdings PLC. There is no further information
required to be disclosed under paragraph 9.6.13R(6) of the Listing
Rules
For further information:
Lookers plc Telephone: 0161 291
0043
Andy Bruce, Chief Executive
Officer
Robin Gregson, Chief
Financial Officer
Bell Pottinger Tel: 020 3772 2500
Victoria Geoghegan
Nick Lambert
Zara de Belder
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