Directorate Change

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC
15 November 2007

                        Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC

                              Retiral of Director



The Board of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon PLC announces that Mr Ian Clelland
McLeish intends to retire from the Board at the conclusion of the Annual General
Meeting in 2008.



                                                            Baillie Gifford & Co

                                                             Company Secretaries

                                                                15 November 2007




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