Board Appointment

RNS Number : 5224J
Croda International PLC
01 July 2011
 



1 July 2011

 

Croda International Plc

 

Board Appointment

 

Croda International Plc today announces the appointment of Alan Ferguson as a non-executive director of the Company with effect from 1 July 2011.

 

Alan was Chief Financial Officer and a director of Lonmin Plc until December 2010. Prior to that he was Group Finance Director of The BOC Group until it was acquired by The Linde Group in 2006. Before then he spent 22 years in a variety of roles at Inchcape plc, including 6 years as Group Finance Director from 1999. Alan is a Chartered Accountant and has been a non-executive director of Johnson Matthey PLC since January 2011.

 

Mike Buzzacott will retire from the Board in August after 7 years as a non-executive director. At that point, Alan Ferguson will take over as Chairman of the Audit Committee and Nigel Turner will become Senior Independent Director.

 

Martin Flower, Chairman, said,

 

"We are delighted to welcome Alan to the Croda Board. His experience both within the chemical sector and in senior finance positions will be of significant benefit and we look forward to his contribution. We wish Mike well and thank him for the valuable role that he has played over the past seven years."

 

There are no further matters to be disclosed under LR9.6.13R of the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority.

 

 

Enquiries:




Charlie Armitstead, Financial Dynamics

020 7269 7275 

 


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