Board appointment

RNS Number : 0400V

Leeds Group PLC

22 October 2014

 



Leeds Group plc

("Leeds Group" or the "Company")

Board appointment

The Board of Leeds Group is pleased to announce the appointment of David Cooper as an independent non-executive director of the Company with immediate effect.

Mr Cooper is a qualified Chartered Accountant and between January 2002 and September 2012 he was the Group Finance director of Dawson International PLC an AIM quoted company.

Further disclosure pursuant to Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules:

David Gordon Cooper (aged 56), holds or has held the following directorships/partnerships:

Current

Previous over past 5 years

DC Consulting Limited Dawson International PLC (in administration) Dawson International Holdings (UK) Limited (in administration) Dawson International Trading Limited (in administration) Vantona Limited (in administration) Dawson International Investments (Kinross) Inc Dawson Cashmere Company Inc Dawson Cashmere LLC Dawson International Properties Inc Dawson Home Fashions Inc Pringle USA Inc Ilion Properties Inc

Former JD Limited Former (T&D) Limited Brown Allen Ltd Laidlaw & Fairgrieve Limited FBB (DI) Limited DNDF Limited FDPF Limited DPOSL Limited Border Knitwear Limited Former BC Limited Former BK Limited Former JDMG Limited BKL Realisations Limited GKHL Realisations Limited Heather Knitwear limited Horrockses Limited Dorma Group Limited CPG (UK) Limited Dawson International Trustee Limited Dawson International Overseas Investments Limited Joseph Dawson AG

In July 2012 the board of Dawson International PLC ("DI") announced that following conversations between the directors and the trustees of the defined benefit pension plans relating to obligations due to the defined benefit pension schemes, the actuary of the plans had served notices of determination of contribution jointly on the DI and its UK trading subsidiary Dawson International Trading Limited ("DIT"). Subsequently the boards of DI, DIT and an intermediate holding company Dawson International Holdings UK Limited, appointed administrators. 

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Enquiries:

Malcolm Wilson                                                                                               Tel:  [phone]

Leeds Group plc

Tony Rawlinson (Nominated Adviser)                                                   Tel:  [phone]

Cairn Financial Advisers LLP       

 

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