Directorate Change

RNS Number : 0033A

Mercantile Investment Trust(The)PLC

23 September 2015

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

THE MERCANTILE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR

The Board of The Mercantile Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Angus Gordon Lennox as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 23^rd September 2015.

Mr Gordon Lennox is Executive Chairman of two private family businesses.  He is also a Non-Executive Director of Securities Trust of Scotland plc, a role he has held since 2013. Previously he had a 24 year career as a corporate broker, first as a Partner of Cazenove & Co, and later as a Managing Director of JPMorgan Cazenove, which he resigned from in August 2010.

Mr Gordon Lennox does not own any shares in the Company and there is no further information is to be disclosed in respect of paragraphs 9.6.13 (2) - (6) of the UKLA Listing Rules.

23^rd September 2015

For further information, please contact:

Juliet Dearlove

JPMorgan Funds Limited - Company Secretary

Telephone [phone]

 

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