Directorate Change

RNS Number : 3259T

Camellia PLC

02 October 2014

 



2 October 2014

Camellia Plc

(the "Company" or the "Group")

Board Changes

The Company is pleased to confirm, as previously announced on 10 June 2014, that Tom Franks and Graham Mclean have been appointed as executive directors of the Company with effect from 1 October 2014.

Tom Franks F.C.A. has been appointed Deputy Chief Executive. He was previously Global Chairman of KPMG Corporate Finance and a Partner of KPMG LLP and joined KPMG in 1988.

Graham Mclean MSc., a qualified agriculturalist, has been appointed as the Managing Director of Agriculture. He was previously regional director of the Group's operations in Africa and has worked for the Group for 21 years.

Thomas Kenric Franks, aged 50, does not hold, nor has he held any other directorships in the previous five years.

Details of directorships that Graham Harold Mclean, aged 45, holds, or has held in the previous five years, are given below:

Eastern Produce Kenya Limited

Kakuzi Limited

Easter Produce Kakuzi Services Limited

Estate Services Ltd

Kaguru EPX Limited

Easter Produce Malawi Ltd

Easter Produce South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Zetmac (Pty) Ltd

Eastern Produce Cape (Pty) Ltd

Save for the declarations above there is no further information to be disclosed under Rule 17 or Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Camellia Plc                                                                                                                                                         01622 746655

Malcolm Perkins, Chairman

Anil Mathur, Finance Director

Julia Morton, Company Secretary

Charles Stanley Securities                                                                                                                            020 7149 6000

Nominated Adviser & Broker

Russell Cook

Carl Holmes

Company description:

Camellia Plc (CAM.L) is a global agriculture and horticulture group, whose activities also extend to engineering, food storage and distribution, banking and financial services. The Group employs approximately 75,000 people globally.

The agriculture and horticulture division is engaged in the production of tea, edible nuts (macadamias, pistachios and almonds), citrus fruits, avocado, rubber, forestry, viticulture, cattle, other horticultural produce and general farming (maize and soya). The Group is one of the largest private tea producers world-wide with a total of 65 tea estates and 60 tea factories. The Group's main operations are in India, Bangladesh, Malawi and Kenya, where the tea is grown and produced. It also has notable agricultural operations, other than tea, in Brazil, California, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi.

The engineering division is engaged in precision engineering, cutting and grinding,   fabrication, heat treatment, galvanising, powder coating and manufacture of stables, etch inspection and catalysts. These businesses are predominately UK based and serve customers in a number of sectors including the offshore oil and gas and aerospace sectors.

The food storage and distribution division is involved in frozen, chilled and ambient temperature food supply chain management providing cold storage, refrigerated transport and production support to several leading UK food manufacturers. It also specialises in frozen imports and distributes seafood products in Europe and supplies food service customers in the Netherlands with fish products.

The banking and financial services division comprises Duncan Lawrie, which provides an integrated suite of banking services, financial planning, investment management and trust and estate advice.

 

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