Appointment of Non-Executive Director

RNS Number : 4857C

Churchill China PLC

11 October 2022

 

11 October 2022

CHURCHILL CHINA plc

("Churchill China" or the "Company")

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

Churchill China plc (AIM: CHH), the manufacturer of innovative performance ceramic products serving hospitality markets worldwide is pleased to announce the appointment of Robin Williams as a Non-executive Director of the Company with immediate effect.

Robin is currently Independent Non-executive Chairman of Keystone Law Group plc, the challenger law firm, and FIH Group plc. Robin is also a Non-executive Director of Headlam Group plc. Until 31 March 2020, Robin was Chairman of Xaar plc, the digital inkjet technology developer and, until March 2018, of NHS Professionals Ltd. Robin is an engineering graduate and qualified chartered accountant with over 30 years' experience with listed companies, initially as an adviser and then as a CEO and co-founder of Britton Group plc and then as an executive director of Hepworth plc, the building materials business.

The Company welcomes Robin who will add significantly to the development of the Churchill business and to the Board. His appointment reflects the Board's ongoing succession process.

  For further information, please contact:

Churchill China plc	Tel: [phone]
David O'Connor / David Taylor
Buchanan	Tel: [phone]
Mark Court / Abigail Gilchrist
Investec Bank plc	Tel: [phone]
David Flin / Alex Wright / William Brinkley

Additional disclosures

Save for the below, there is nothing further to disclose in relation to the appointment of Robin Williams under Rule 17 or Schedule Two, Paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies:

Robin George Walton Williams, aged 65, holds no ordinary shares in the Company and has been a director of the following companies during the five years preceding the date of this announcement:

Current directorships / partnerships	Previous directorships / partnerships over the last five years
Keystone Law Group PLC	Xeinadin UK Professional Services Ltd
FIH Group PLC	Xeinadin Group Limited
Headlam Group plc	Van Elle Holdings PLC
26 Gledhow Gardens Limited (unlisted)	Xaar plc
Stirling Industries PLC (unlisted and dormant)	NHS Professionals Limited
The Manufacturing Technology Centre Ltd (unlisted)

Robin Williams was previously a director of private equity backed Killby & Gayford Group Limited. Killby & Gayford Group Limited entered into Administration in April 2012, approximately seven months following Robin Williams' resignation as non-executive Chairman. Killby & Gayford Group Limited traded profitably to the date of Robin Williams leaving and he was not involved in any preparation for or events leading up to the decision of the Directors of Killby & Gayford Group Limited to enter administration.

 

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