Board appointments

McBride PLC
01 September 2003

1 September 2003

Board Appointments

McBride plc, Europe's leading supplier of household and personal care retail
brand products, announces the appointment of two additional independent
Non-Executive Directors to the Board.  The appointments take effect today 1
September 2003.
     
1.   Christine A Bogdanowicz-Bindert

     Christine is an experienced financier born in Belgium, with joint Belgian/
     Polish nationality.  She has worked throughout Europe and the USA for the 
     last 30 years firstly with the International Monetary Fund and then, until 
     1990, with Lehman Brothers Inc as a senior Vice President.  Since 1990 she 
     has been the President of Bindert GmbH in Germany which specialises in 
     strategic/corporate planning issues for multinationals in Poland and has 
     held a number of non-executive directorships in Poland and the US.

2.   Robert Lee

     Robert has over 35 years experience in the petrochemical and allied 
     industries. He was employed by Dow Chemicals for 28 years in a variety of 
     international senior management positions.  In 1997, he joined a new 
     management team established at Octel Corp, enabling its successful demerger 
     to become an independent publicly quoted petroleum additive company, listed 
     on the NYSE. In 1999 he established both the European division of CheMatch, 
     a new business venture providing e-commerce services for the petrochemical 
     industry and Advanced Plastics Technologies, developer, owner and 
     successful licensor of a portfolio of leading edge intellectual property 
     for the international packaging industry.

Commenting on the appointments, Allen Sheppard, Chairman of McBride, said: 'We
are very pleased to welcome these two new Non-Executive Directors to the Board
of McBride.  They bring a wide range of key skills and knowledge to support
McBride's growth with particular relevance to our Central and Eastern European
markets and our relationships with the chemical industry.  They join at a
particularly exciting time for McBride which is maintaining a sustained period
of improved performance and opportunity'.

As already announced, the preliminary results for the year ending 30 June 2003
will be released on 11 September 2003.

For further information please contact:

Andrew Dowler, Financial Dynamics                               020 7831 3113


Notes to editors

The Board of McBride plc consists of the following:

Chairman                                     Lord Sheppard of Didgemere

Chief Executive                              Mike Handley

Group Financial Director                     Miles Roberts

Senior Non-Executive Director                Henri Talerman  (USA)

Non-Executive Directors                      Colin Smith
                                             Christine A Bogdanowicz-Bindert 
                                             (Belgian/Polish)
                                             Robert Lee




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