26 January 2015
Guscio PLC
("Guscio" or the "Company" or the "Group")
Directorate Change
Guscio plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Charles Thompson
as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board with immediate effect. Following this
appointment, Marcus Yeoman will assume the role of Non-Executive Director.
Richard Thompson has worked with a number of private and public companies
during the last 25 years. His early career began at Hillsdown Holdings plc, and
he later became involved in a number of smaller public companies across various
sectors. He has also had an active involvement in the sports sector being
Chairman of Queens Park Rangers and Windsor Race Course, as well as Director on
the board of Leeds Sporting plc. In more recent years he has focused on a
number of private company investments across sectors that included Retail,
Technology, Media and Fashion. Currently he is working with a number of
businesses within the Technology and Media sector where he has strong
management teams that benefit from his ongoing support.
Marcus Yeoman, Non-Executive Director of the Board, commented: "We welcome
Richard to the team, he brings a wealth of experience which will assist the
business as we move in to our next phase of development. His expertise in
identifying the people and companies that can lead to the creation of
shareholder value across a number of sectors including Technology, Media,
Retail and Property will be a great asset to our company".
Disclosures under Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules
Under Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules, the following information is
disclosed:
Mr Richard Charles Thompson, aged 50, holds or has held the following
directorships and/or partnerships in the previous five years:
Present Directorships/Partnerships Past Directorships/Partnerships
Amphitrite Limited 1440 Limited
Churchill Media Limited Airbust Limited
Compatibility Index Limited Bluedata Limited
Finch and Partners Limited Club Television Limited
Fonix Mobile Limited Dancing Brave Pictures Limited
Gallanta Investments Limited Elemental Herbology Limited
Metal Pig Limited Frostfrench Limited
Myskillz Limited Miller Harris Limited
OLCI Construction Skills Limited Mirenstone Limited
OLCI Construction Training Limited Monumental Adventure Productions
Limited
OLCI Group Limited
Myskillz Community Enterprise Limited
One Line Films Limited
Organic Global Infusions Limited
Play Now Limited
Ragdoll Management Limited
Sportsdata Limited
Recis Limited
Starnevesse Limited
Sparticus Holdings Limited
Twin Flame Media Limited
Mr Thompson is currently a director on the board of Myskillz Limited, a company
which was subject to a successful winding up petition from a creditor in
September 2014. A liquidator was appointed by the official receiver in October
2014 with the estimated creditors figure totalling £100,000.
Mr Thompson joined the board of OLCI Construction Training Limited in January
2014. The company entered into administration in May 2014. The creditors
consisted of both secured bank debt and unsecured creditors amounting to £
736,000 and £967,000 respectively.
Mr Thompson was a director on the board of Finch and Partners Limited which
entered into a Company Voluntary Arrangement ("CVA") on 27 September 2013. The
creditors figure totalled £1,163,737 of which £105,000 was due to Amphitrite
Limited, a company owned by Richard Thompson. The CVA involved the creditors
agreeing to a payment plan over three and a half years but did not involve any
of the creditors reducing the amount due to them.
Mr Thompson was a director of The Luxury Lifestyles Limited, a company which
entered into administrative receivership on 30 May 2002 with an estimated
deficiency in relation to creditors of £4.5 million.
Mr Thompson currently holds 567,107 ordinary shares in the Company, equivalent
to 7.74 per cent. of its issued share capital. These shares are held through
Amphitrite Limited of which Mr Thompson is a 100 per cent. shareholder.
Mr Thompson has confirmed that there is no additional information to be
disclosed in accordance with Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM rules.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
For further additional information please contact:
Guscio PLC
Tony Humphreys / Marcus Yeoman 020 3053 1897
Sanlam Securities UK Limited
Simon Clements / Virginia Bull 020 7628 2200
Peterhouse Corporate Finance Limited
Lucy Williams / Eran Zucker 020 7469 0936
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