Statement following Annual Ge

RNS Number : 3046G

Mitchells & Butlers PLC

28 January 2010

 



Mitchells & Butlers plc

Statement following Annual General Meeting

Following the results of the AGM the Mitchells & Butlers Board is now constituted as follows:

Michael Balfour

Jeremy Blood

Simon Burke

Adam Fowle

Tim Lankester

John Lovering

Ron Robson

Jeremy Townsend

John Lovering has now been elected as Chairman of the Board. Further announcements on Board Committee structures will be made shortly. On behalf of the Board John Lovering said:

"The Board will put recent history behind us and move forward committed to the interests of all shareholders. We will conduct a thorough review of the business which will be presented to all shareholders by the end of March. We will look at all aspects of the business: the number of brands and their positioning; the efficiency and allocation of capital expenditure; and the level of overhead costs within the business.

Our main message is to all of our employees in the business. You have focussed on delivering great experiences to our customers and we promise to you that the Board will now be a source of leadership and direction not discord and distraction. Together we can build upon Mitchells & Butlers' position as the leading managed pub company."

For further information, please contact:

Corporate Affairs:

Erik Castenskiold

[phone]

Media:

James Murgatroyd (Finsbury Group)

[phone]

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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