Appointment of Non-executive Director

RNS Number : 5191M

Staffline Group PLC

17 September 2019

 

17 September 2019

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline" or the "Company")

Appointment of Non-executive Director

Further to the disclosure in the Company's 2019 interim results announcement published today, Staffline, the recruitment and training group, confirms the appointment of Richard Thomson, as Non-executive Director, with effect from 17 September 2019.

Richard has over eighteen years' experience as an independent director and board-level advisor. He began his career at Rothschild where he spent seven years, followed by five years as Senior Executive Director at Alcentra, a global asset management firm. Richard has two master's degrees from St Catherine's College Oxford and holds the Securities Institute diploma from The Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Following his appointment, Richard will be a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees.

Tracy Lewis, Non-executive Chairman of Staffline, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome Richard to the Board and expect his extensive strategy and advisory experience to materially contribute both to Staffline's future objectives and its positioning as the UK's market leading recruitment and training group."

The following information is disclosed pursuant to Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies:

Full name and age	Richard Lindhardt Thomson age 42 (born 31 August 1977)
Current directorships	1.   Kinherit Limited (co.no. 011500962 appointed 6 August 2018). 2.   RLT Advisory Limited (co.no. 10354057 appointed 1 September 2016). 3.   3w Power SA (Luxembourg registered company).
Past directorships	1.   WC Project Limited (co.no. 10023450 dissolved 11 December 2018). 2.   Pelican Rouge BV (Dutch registered company)

Richard has no interests in the shares of Staffline Group plc. There is no other information that is required to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information, please contact:

Staffline Group plc www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer Michael Watts, Chief Financial Officer	via Vigo Communications
Liberum NOMAD and Joint Broker www.liberum.com Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes	020 3100 2222
Berenberg Joint Broker www.berenberg.com Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux	020 3207 7800
Vigo Communications Financial PR www.vigocomms.com Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock / Charlie Neish	020 7390 0230 [e-mail]

About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

Enabling the Future of Work™

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions:

Recruitment Division

Staffline is the UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,600 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing. It operates from over c460 locations in UK, Republic of Ireland and Poland. Its world leading Customer Experience platform provides optimised customer-based staffing management solutions whilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.

PeoplePlus Division

Staffline is the leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering apprenticeships, adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programmes across the country.

Skills and Training - market leading provider of Apprenticeships (both Levy and non-Levy), learning and development, adult education and health and well-being programmes to the Private and Public sector.

Justice and Community - largest independent provider of education and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.

Employability - market leading provider of programmes providing back-to-work education, skills support services to the unemployed and enterprise advice to individuals wanting to start their own business.

 

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