Directorate Change

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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