Board Appointment

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Mitchells & Butlers PLC
18 November 2009
 



18 November 2009


Mitchells & Butlers plc


Board Appointment


Mitchells & Butlers plc (the 'Company') announces that Douglas E McMahon has today been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect, acting as a nominated shareholder representative of Piedmont Inc. (an investment vehicle of Joe Lewis). Piedmont Inc. owns 93,047,373 shares in the Company, representing 22.8% of the voting rights in issue.  Mr McMahon will be the second nominated shareholder representative of Piedmont Inc. alongside Mr Richard McGuire, who was appointed on 16 July 2009. 


Mr McMahon is Managing Director of Tavistock Group.  Mr McMahon has two decades of marketing experience, previously serving as chairman and CEO of Publicis New York, and earlier as General Manager of J. Walter Thompson New York.  Mr McMahon was also Chief Marketing Officer at Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC).


Mitchells & Butlers confirms that there is no further information about Mr McMahon requiring disclosure under paragraphs 9.6.13 (2) to (6) of the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority.


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For further information, please contact:


Investor Relations:

Erik Castenskiold  

+44 121 498 6513


Media:

James Murgatroyd (Finsbury Group)

+44 207 251 3801 


  



Notes for editors:


Mitchells & Butlers owns and operates around 2,000 high quality pubs in prime locations nationwide. The Group's predominantly freehold, managed estate is biased towards large pubs in residential locations. With around 3% of the pubs in the UK, Mitchells & Butlers has 10% of industry sales and average weekly sales per pub almost four times greater than that of the average UK pub.


Mitchells & Butlers' leading portfolio of brands and formats includes Ember Inns, Harvester, Sizzling Pub Co., Toby Carvery, Vintage Inns, Crown Carveries, All Bar One, O'Neill's, Nicholson's and Browns. In addition, Mitchells & Butlers operates a large number of individual city centre and residential pubs.


 




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