Two senior appointments at Garrett Ingredients

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Real Good Food Company Plc (The)

12 December 2013

The Real Good Food Company plc (AIM: RGD)

Two senior management appointments at Garrett Ingredients

The Real Good Food Company plc ("the Group" or "RGFC"), the diversified food group, owns Napier Brown (Europe's biggest non-refining sugar distributor) as well as Renshaw and R&W Scott (bakery ingredients), Garrett Ingredients (dairy ingredients) and Haydens Bakery (patisserie and desserts).

The Board of RGFC is pleased to announce a strengthening of the management team at Garrett Ingredients, its dairy ingredients business, with the appointment of a new Managing Director and a Business Development Director (Dairy).

Andy Birkett will be joining Garrett Ingredients as Managing Director on 20 January 2014 and Gareth Silcox becomes Business Development Director on 16 December. Both men have extensive experience in the food industry.

Andy lives in Somerset, close to Garrett Ingredients' office at Thornbury near Bristol, and has a wealth of operational and commercial experience gained during his time at 2 Sisters Food Group, Oscar Meyer and Milklink (formerly Express Dairies).

Gareth has comprehensive experience of the dairy industry, having held positions at Dairy Crest and First Milk, as well as in recent years running his own dairy trading business.

Pieter Totté, RGFC Executive Chairman, comments:

"I am delighted to welcome Andy and Gareth to our fast expanding Garrett Ingredients business and wish them both well in their new roles with us. Their appointments continue the re-shaping of our overall Group structure, as we seek to maximise the potential of all five trading businesses within the Group."

12 December 2013

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