Directorate Change

RNS Number : 4713I

Cineworld Group plc

25 March 2015

 

Cineworld Group Plc ("Cineworld" or the "Company")

Directorate Change

Further to the Board changes announced on 11 March 2015, Cineworld Group Plc announces the following additional proposed change which will take effect from the Annual General Meeting of the Company due to be held on 26 May 2015 ("AGM"):

·  The Company will be proposing the appointment of another new Non-Executive Director, Alicja Kornasiewicz, at the Company's AGM.  Her appointment will be subject to shareholder approval.

Alicja Kornasiewicz is currently a Managing Director and Head of CEE for Morgan Stanley & Co, International PLC.  She brings extensive Central and Eastern Europe financial and political experience to the Board. Previously, Alicja has held executive management roles at UniCredit Bank throughout the region and was also Secretary of State for the Ministry of the State Treasury of the Republic of Poland, a role she held from 1997 to 2000. She was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Pekao S.A. from 2011 to 2012.

There is no other information required to be disclosed under listing Rule 9.6.13R.

Cineworld Chairman Anthony Bloom said:

"We look forward to welcoming Alicja Kornasiewicz who, if elected, will commence her role following the AGM. The business will greatly benefit from her experience and market knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe."

For further information please contact:

Cineworld PLC Anthony Bloom, Chairman Philip Bowcock, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Bell Pottinger Elly Williamson Charlie Harrison	[phone]

Notes to editors

 About Cineworld Group Plc

Cineworld Group Plc was founded in 1995 and listed its shares on the London Stock Exchange in May 2007.

The company has grown organically and by acquisition to become one of the leading cinema Groups in Europe with the number one or number two position by number of screens in each of its regions.  Cineworld currently operates 1,875 screens across 203 sites in the UK and Ireland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Israel.

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