Marston's PLC Board Changes (9334G)
July 29 2019 - 1:01AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 9334G
Marston's PLC
29 July 2019
MARSTON'S PLC
Board Changes
29 July 2019
Marston's PLC is pleased to announce two non-executive
appointments to the Board. In addition, and as mentioned in last
year's Annual Report, Robin Rowland will step down from the Board
as a Non-executive Director with effect from the end of July.
Bridget Lea and Octavia Morley will join the Board as
independent Non-executive Directors with effect from 1 September
2019 and 1 January 2020 respectively.
Bridget is Managing Director (North) at J Sainsbury PLC and has
had a distinguished career working across multiple leading retail
brands. Starting at Marks & Spencer in 1994, she went on to
hold senior positions - spanning a wide range of disciplines
including sales, operations, marketing, supply chain and digital -
within retail corporates such as at Body Shop International Ltd,
Clarks Shoes Ltd, Uniqlo Europe Ltd, Oasis Stores PLC, Arcadia
Group Ltd and Telefonica UK Ltd/O2. Most recently, she was Director
of Stores, Online and Omnichannel at O2 where she led the
re-engineering of the store experience, development of an
industry-leading digital experience and the omnichannel
transformation.
In addition, Bridget has been a member of the Board of Governors
at Manchester University since 2018.
Octavia has extensive experience in executive and Non-executive
roles in retail and multisite companies having held various senior
operational and strategic roles across all areas of retail at
companies including Asda Stores Limited, Laura Ashley Holdings PLC
and Woolworths plc, Octavia became Chief Executive Officer, and
then Chair, at LighterLife UK Limited. She was subsequently
appointed Managing Director at Crew Clothing Co Ltd and then went
on to become Chief Executive at OKA Direct Limited.
Octavia is currently Executive Chair of Spicers-Office Team
Group Ltd. She is also Senior Independent Director at Card Factory
PLC and a Non-executive Director of Crest Nicholson Holdings PLC
and Ascensos Ltd; she is a former Non-executive director of John
Menzies PLC.
Robin Rowland will step down from the Board as a Non-executive
Director of Marston's with effect from 31 July 2019. The Board
would like to thank him formally for his contribution during his
nine year tenure with the Group.
There are no other details that are required to be disclosed
under Rule 9.6.13 of the Listing Rules of the UK Listing
Authority.
William Rucker, Chairman of Marston's PLC, commented:
"I am delighted to welcome both Bridget and Octavia to
Marston's. They are extremely high calibre additions to the Board
and bring with them extensive experience of a wide range of leading
consumer retail businesses which is highly relevant to Marston's
pub retailing and brewing operations. Their respective skillsets
and insight will be of great value to the Group and we look forward
to working with them.
"On behalf of the Board, I would also like to take this
opportunity to thank Robin Rowland for his contribution over his
nine year tenure as a Non-executive Director of Marston's. His
passion, energy and experience of the wider eating out market has
been hugely beneficial during his time with the business and we
wish him every success with his future ventures."
For further information, please contact:
Marston's PLC Tel: 01902 329516
Ralph Findlay, Chief Executive
Officer
Instinctif Partners Tel: 020 7457 2020
Justine Warren
Matthew Smallwood
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