Directorate Change
Azure Holdings PLC
12 May 2006
Azure Holdings plc
(the 'Company')
Board changes
The Company announces the appointment of Barry Gold and Gerald Desler as
directors of the Company, and the resignation of the existing directors,
Nicholas Greenstone and Ronald Stirling, with immediate affect.
Barry Gold, age 58, is a solicitor with experience of fully listed and
AIM-quoted companies. Mr Gold is currently the chairman and joint managing
director of Premier Management Holdings plc, an AIM-quoted football agency.
Mr Gold's current directorships are as follows:
BG Consultancy Services Limited, Matisse Holdings plc, Nemesis Marketing Group
plc, Premier Management Holdings plc, Premier Management Recruitment Limited,
Premier Management Snooker Limited, Venture Six plc.
In the past five years Mr Gold has been a director of the following companies:
Aimwright Limited, Apollo Metals plc, Avent Limited, Avent Enterprises Limited,
Bracken Partners Limited, Bracken Partners Group Limited, Cannon Avent Group
plc, Cannon Avent Limited, Capitol Group plc, Dudley Jenkins Group plc, Essex
Furniture plc (1), Hopeflow Properties Limited, Kingstonian Football Club
Limited, London Asia Capital plc, Moving Homes Limited, Non-League Media plc
(2), Pure Holdings Limited, Southern Homes & Properties Limited, Timeframed
Limited (3), Underwriting and Subscription plc, Yorkplan Limited.
(1) Mr Gold was a non-executive director at the time of or within the 12 months
preceding the administrative receivership of Essex Furniture plc which occurred
in October 1998. At the time the administration order was made for Essex
Furniture plc in October 1998, the estimated deficiency with regards to
creditors was £17,044,308. The majority of this related to estimated rents due
in respect of the remaining terms of leases, all but two of which by December
1999 had either been assigned or returned to the landlords; customers' deposits,
where the goods have now been substantially delivered; and a VAT repayment of
£2.35 million.
(2) Mr Gold was also a non-executive director at the time of or within the 12
months preceding the administrative receivership of Non-League Media plc, which
occurred in June 2002. At the time the administration order was granted, the
estimated deficiency with regards to creditors was £116,999.
(3) Mr Gold was also a non-executive director at the time of or within the 12
months preceding the insolvent liquidation of Timeframed Limited, which occurred
in November 2001. At the time of the appointment of the liquidator to Timeframed
Limited, the deficiency as regards to creditors was £8,361,386, of which
£4,500,000 was in respect of loan stock holders; £3,000,000 was owed to the
founder; £41,512 to preferential creditors; and £423,586 to unsecured creditors.
Mr Gold was a non-executive director at the time of or within the 12 months
preceding the administrative receivership of Clearmark Group plc, which occurred
in August 1991. The receivers ceased to act for Clearmark Group plc in 1998,
which was subsequently dissolved by notice in the London Gazette, dated 20 April
1999.
Gerald Desler, age 60, is a chartered accountant, who qualified in 1968 with
Stanley A Spofforth & Co., becoming a partner in 1970 and a senior partner in
1985. Mr Desler is currently the finance director of Premier Management Holdings
plc.
Mr Desler's current directorships are as follows:
140 High Street Management Limited, Andrew Manning Limited, Andrew Mills
Consultancy Limited, Aralbest Limited, Babble.net Group plc, BG Consultancy
Services Limited, C&R Civil Enforcement Services Limited (4), Click 4 Support
Limited, Desler Consulting Limited, Managed Services Solutions Limited, MSC
Agency Limited, Premier Management Football Limited, Premier Management Holdings
plc, Premier Management Recruitment Limited, Southern Homes & Properties
Limited, Sports Player Management Limited (5), Student Link plc, Tangent Media
Group Limited, Venture Six plc,
In the past five year's Mr Desler has been a director of the following:
Global Screen Ad Services Limited, Global Screen Ad Systems Limited, Kingstonian
Football Club Limited, Milefarm Limited, Noviceguru Limited, Resday Limited,
Signactual Limited, The Online Shop Web Fulfilment Limited, Theonlineshop.co.uk
Limited, Theonlineshop.TV Limited, Yorkplan Limited
(4) On 9 August 2001, Mr Desler was appointed a director of C&R Civil
Enforcement Services Limited. A liquidator was appointed on 18 October 2004. The
liquidation is ongoing.
(5) Mr Desler is a director of Sports Player Management Limited which went into
liquidation in April 2006. The liquidation is ongoing.
Mr Desler was a director of Grovefair plc, which went into voluntary
receivership in March 1997. He had resigned as a director on 31 March 1996.
Following his resignation as a director of Grovefair plc, it undertook a
reorganisation whereby it was divided into two separately owned entities. While
Grovefair plc went into voluntary receivership, the other entity did not.
There are no further disclosures required under Schedule Two (g) of the AIM
rules.
For further information please contact:
Barry Gold, Azure Holdings plc Tel: 07768 948 928
David Youngman, WH Ireland Limited Tel: 0161 832 2174
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