Directorate Change

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Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst PLC

10 June 2010

 



THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

HENDERSON GLOBAL INVESTORS

10 JUNE 2010

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Appointment of a new Director

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc ('the Company') announces that Mrs Beatrice Hollond will be appointed a non-executive director with effect from 23 July 2010. 

Beatrice Hollond is deputy chairman of Millbank Financial Services, an independent family office, and chairman of Millbank Investment Management Limited, its investment management subsidiary.  She is also a director of Keystone Investment Trust plc, ORA Capital Partners Plc and Oldfield & Co. (London) Limited.  Among other appointments she is a trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Chairman of the Investment Committee, and an Advisory Fellow, of Pembroke College, Oxford.

There is no further information to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13 R in respect of Mrs Hollond.

The Company also gives notification that Mrs Sally Davis will retire from the Board at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting in September 2010.  Sally Davis was appointed a non-executive director in 2001 and will have served for nine years. 

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For further information, please contact:

Neil Hermon                                        

Portfolio Manager                                                        

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc                                  

Telephone: [phone]                                          

James de Sausmarez

Head of Investment Trusts

Henderson Global Investors

Telephone:  [phone]

 

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