Fiona Holmes joins as Brands Director

RNS Number : 8056N

Walker Greenbank PLC

31 October 2016

 

For immediate release

31 October 2016

WALKER GREENBANK PLC

("Walker Greenbank" or the "Company")

Fiona Holmes joins as Brands Director

Walker Greenbank PLC (AIM: WGB), the luxury interior furnishings group, announces that Fiona Holmes, whose appointment as Managing Director - Brands and Executive Director to the Board of the Company was announced on 8 June 2016, is joining the Company today.

As previously announced, Fiona is joining the Company from the FTSE-250 retailer N Brown Group plc, where she has worked for the past seven years most recently as the managing director of figleaves.com.

Further to the Company's announcement of 8 June 2016, there is no additional information to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 17 or Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information:

Walker Greenbank PLC	[phone]
John Sach, Chief Executive Mike Gant, Chief Financial Officer
Caroline Geary, Company Secretary
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and Broker)	[phone]
Garry Levin / David Anderson / Alex Wright - Corporate Finance
Henry Reast - Corporate Broking
Buchanan	[phone]
Mark Court / Sophie Cowles / Catriona Flint

Notes for editors:

About Walker Greenbank

Walker Greenbank PLC is a luxury interior furnishings company that designs, manufactures and markets wallpapers and fabrics together with a wide range of ancillary interior products. The Company's brand portfolio - comprising Sanderson, Morris & Co, Harlequin, Zoffany, Scion and Anthology - spans heritage and contemporary design and its products are sold in more than 85 countries worldwide. The Company derives significant licensing income from the use of its designs in lifestyle products such as bed linen, rugs and tableware.

The Company employs more than 600 people and has showrooms in London, New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Dubai along with partnership showrooms in Moscow and in Shenzhen, China. Its UK manufacturing base, which includes a wallpaper factory in Loughborough and a fabric printing factory in Lancaster, manufactures product both for the Group and for other wallpaper and fabric brands. Continued investment in manufacturing has allowed the Group to offer a wide range of printing techniques.

Walker Greenbank trades on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WGB.

For further information please visit: www.walkergreenbank.com/

 

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