Appointment of Group Finance

RNS Number : 3080U

Digital Marketing Group PLC

23 June 2009

 



Date:                  23 June 2009

On behalf of:      Digital Marketing Group plc ('DMG', 'the Group' or 'the Company')

Embargoed for: 0700hrs

Digital Marketing Group plc

Appointment of Finance Director and Company Secretary

Digital Marketing Group plc (AIM: DIGI), the AIM-listed digital marketing specialist, is delighted to announce the appointment of Keith Sadler as a director of the Group and as its new Finance Director and Company Secretary. Keith will join the Group on 29 June 2009.

Keith, aged 50, has over 17 years' experience at board level for both AIM and fully listed media companies, most recently as Group Finance Director and Chief Executive of SPG Media Group Plc.

Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant  in 1985, Keith spent nine years in practice before joining Mirror Group Newspapers in 1991, becoming Head of The Internal Audit and Operational Review upon the death of Robert Maxwell.

In 1993, Keith joined Bristol United Press Group Plc, a quoted regional newspaper group as Group Finance Director, and subsequently joined News Communications & Media Plc, as Group Finance Director in 1999. In 2000, Keith was instrumental in negotiating the sale of Newscom to Gannett Co., Inc. for £500m, at which point he joined regional radio operator The Wireless Group as Chief Financial Officer. In 2005, Keith led negotiations of the sale of The Wireless Group to Ulster Television for £100m at which point he joined SPG Media Group. As Group Finance Director then Chief Executive Keith was responsible for the successful restructuring and sale of the business.

Keith will replace Greg Minns who joined the Company in January and performed the role of Finance Director and Company Secretary during the interim period. Greg will be leaving the company in mid September having performed a handover to Keith.

Commenting on the appointment, Stephen Davidson, Chairman of DMG, said:

'Having worked with Keith at SPG, I know his capabilities first hand and am delighted that he is joining DMG. He has exceptional experience as a plc board director and financial and operating executive in the media sector. His arrival will strengthen the Board and complement Ben Langdon's outstanding leadership.'

The companies of which Keith Sadler has been a director of over the past five 

years are as follows: 

Creating a Line Media Limited*

SPG Media Group plc

The Wireless Group plc

- Wave 102 FM Limited	- talkSPORT Limited
- TWG Impact limited	- Wire FM (1997) Limited
- TWG Payments Limited	- 1458 Big AM Limited
- Imagine FM Limited	- The Wireless Group Holdings Limited
- Pulse FM Limited	- Swansea Sound Limited
- Talk Radio UK Limited	- 102.4 Wish FM Limited
- Off The Telly Productions Limited	- The Wireless Radio Company Limited
- Newstalk 105.2 FM Limited	- Radiowave (Blackpool) Limited
- Signal Radio Limited	- Valley Radio Limited
- Leahurst Investments Limited	- Independent Radio Group Limited
- Town Centre Properties (Subsidiary) Limited	- Allied Radio Productions Limited
- Allied Radio Limited	- 96.3 QFM Limited
- Wareselection Limited	- Galactichalo Limited
- The Wireless Group (ILRS) Limited	- Soccerbet Limited
- New City Radio Limited	- South West Radio Limited
- Tower 107.4 FM Limited	- Forever Broadcasting Digital Radio Limited
- Grand Central Broadcasting Limited	- Wolverhampton Area Radio Limited
- Newport FM Limited	- Forever Broadcasting Limited
- BOLD FM Limited	- Somethin' Else Sound Directions Limited
- RSB 1 Limited	- Dunedin FM Limited

UTV Radio (GB) Limited

UTV-Bauer Digital Limited

Capital Gold Manchester Limited

Town & Country Broadcasting Limited

Proud FM Limited

Rock Radio Limited

Switchdigital (London) Limited

Switchdigital (Scotland) Limited

TalkRadio UK Limited

Talk 106.1 FM Ltd

Talk 107 Edinburgh Limited

Alltalk FM North East Limited

AllTalk FM Liverpool Limited

Apex Subscription Agency Limited

Cornhill Events Limited

Cornhill Publications Limited

Corporate Media Solutions Limited

Ebulletins Limited

Global Infomedia Limited

Net Resources International Limited

Qmina Limited

Quasar Events Limited

Quasar International Communications Limited

*Current Directorship 

There are no further disclosures to be made under Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM rules. 

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Enquiries:

Digital Marketing Group plc	www.digitalmarketinggroup.co.uk
Ben Langdon, Chief Executive	via Redleaf Communications
Redleaf Communications	[e-mail]
Paul Dulieu/Kathryn Hurford	Tel: [phone]
Cenkos Securities
Ivonne Cantu/Julian Morse	Tel: [phone]

Notes to Editors:

• Digital Marketing Group (AIM: DIGI) listed on AIM in October 2006, employs over 600 people.
• Digital Marketing Group is the UKs biggest digital marketing agency (Campaign Magazine Jan 2009).
• At the heart of the company is Digital Brain - a process which enables the real time integration of 'digital, direct and data'. This helps create unique contact strategies for each individual based on their historical data and real time interactions regardless of channel.

Digital Marketing Group's development strategy consists of three key elements:

• 'organic growth' - driven by growth within the acquired businesses and the application of a group business development programme; 

• 'buy and build' - through the acquisition of a number of well run and profitable businesses with complementary skills in digital direct marketing; and

• the creation of new revenue streams from within the existing talents and resources of the group.

Publication quality photographs are available via Redleaf Communications.

 

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