26 February 2016
HELICAL BAR PLC
("Helical Bar", the "Group", "Company")
DIRECTORATE APPOINTMENT
Appointment of new independent non-executive Director
Helical Bar is pleased to announce that Richard Cotton is to be appointed to the Board of the Company as a non-executive Director with effect from 1 March 2016. Richard will become a member of the Nominations, Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Richard (60), trained as a chartered surveyor before becoming a property equity analyst at Cazenove & Co in 1986 and ultimately Head of UK Real Estate Corporate Finance at J.P. Morgan Cazenove. He left in 2009 to become a Managing Director at Forum Partners. Previously a Non-Executive Director at Hansteen Holdings plc and a member of the Advisory Board Corporate Real Estate Business Support Unit at Lloyds Banking Group, Richard is currently a Non-Executive Director of Big Yellow Group plc, Chairman of Centurion Properties Limited as well as a Member of the Commercial Development Advisory Group of Transport for London.
Nigel McNair Scott, Chairman of Helical Bar, commented:
"I am delighted to welcome Richard Cotton to the Company as an independent non-executive Director and we look forward to benefiting from his considerable real estate and corporate finance experience in the years to come."
There is no further information that is required to be disclosed under paragraph 9.6.13(1) to 9.6.13(6) of the Listing Rules in relation to this appointment.
For further information, please contact:
Helical Bar
Nigel McNair Scott/Michael Slade
Tel: 020 7629 0113
FTI Consulting
Dido Laurimore/Tom Gough/ Clare Glynn
Tel: 020 3727 1000