Board Appointment

RNS Number : 6182R

Marston's PLC

13 December 2016

MARSTON'S PLC

Board Appointment

Marston's PLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Roberts to the Board as a Non-Executive Director, with effect from 1 March 2017. He will also be a member of the Audit Committee.

Matthew brings with him significant experience of both the property and multisite consumer retail and leisure sectors. He is currently Chief Financial Officer of Intu Properties plc (previously Capital Shopping Centres plc), a FTSE100 listed business.

Prior to this, Matthew was Chief Financial officer of Gala Coral Group Ltd from 2004 to 2008.

He held a number of senior roles with The Burton Group from 1989 to 1998, spanning group finance, corporate development and IT, during which time he lead the demerger of Debenhams in 1998. He was Finance Director of Debenhams from 1996 to 2003.

Matthew is a qualified Chartered Accountant (FCA), having trained with Coopers & Lybrand from 1985 to 1989, where he worked across corporate finance, audit and business service departments before moving into retail.

There are no further details required to be disclosed under LR 9.6.13 of the FCA Handbook.

Roger Devlin, Chairman of Marston's PLC, commented:

"I am delighted to welcome Matthew to Marston's and to the Board. His extensive property expertise and experience of a variety of high calibre, consumer-facing leisure and retail corporates will be highly relevant to Marston's as we progress the continued development of our own business in pub-retailing and brewing.''

13 December 2016

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