Appointment of Non-Exec Direc

Gleeson(M J)Group PLC
27 October 2006


Friday 27 October 2006

                              MJ GLEESON GROUP PLC                              

                     Appointment of Non-Executive Director                      

Gleeson (GLE.L) announces the appointment of Terry Morgan MSc, 57, as an
independent Non-Executive Director. His appointment is effective from 1 November
2006.

Currently, Terry is Chief Executive of Tube Lines, a joint venture formed to
manage the PPP work to deliver improvements to the Jubilee, Northern and
Piccadilly lines, a position which he has held since 2002. In addition, he has
been a Non-Executive Director of the NAAFI.

Previously, he was Group Managing Director - Operations (2001-02) and Group HR
Director (1996-2001) at BAE Systems, where he oversaw a period of significant
re-organisation; Managing Director of Royal Ordnance at British Aerospace
(1994-96), at a time of rapidly reducing expenditure on defence equipment; and
Managing Director of Land Rover Vehicles at Rover Group PLC (1989-94), where he
supervised the introduction of the Discovery. He holds an MSc in Engineering
Production & Management from Birmingham University.

Commenting on the appointment, Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, said: 'One of the
threads running through Terry Morgan's broadly-based CV is the successful
management of change. This will be of great help to us as we develop and
implement the Group's new corporate strategy.'

There are no further details to be disclosed by Terry Morgan under paragraph
9.6.13R of the Listing Rules.

Notes for Editors:

Effective 1 November 2006, Gleeson's Non-Executive Directors will be: Dermot
Gleeson (Chairman), Ross Ancell, Terry Morgan, and Eric Stobart.

Enquiries:

M J Gleeson Group plc                      Tel: [phone]
Dermot Gleeson (Chairman)
Paul Wallwork (Interim Chief Executive)

Bankside Consultants Limited
Charles Ponsonby                            Tel:  [phone]
Ian Payne                                   Tel:  [phone]

 

 



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