Camellia PLC Board changes (0370S)
July 02 2015 - 9:09AM
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Camellia PLC
02 July 2015
Camellia Plc
("Camellia" or the "Company")
Board changes
Camellia Plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Tom
Franks as Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 September
2015. Mr Franks joined Camellia and was appointed to the Board on 1
October 2014.
The Company also announces that Mr Peter Field will retire as a
Director of Camellia with effect from 31 December 2015. Mr Field
will remain as non-executive Chairman of the group's operations in
India and Bangladesh.
Mr Christopher Ames has tendered his resignation as a Director
of Camellia with effect from 2 July 2015.
M C Perkins
Chairman
2 July 2015
Camellia Plc 01622 746655
Malcolm Perkins, Chairman
Tom Franks, Deputy Chief Executive
Julia Morton, Company Secretary
Charles Stanley Securities 020 7149 6000
Nominated Adviser & Broker
Russell Cook
James Greenwood
Company description:
Camellia Plc (CAM.L) is a global agriculture and horticulture
group, whose activities also extend to engineering, food storage
and distribution, banking and financial services. The Group employs
approximately 75,000 people globally.
The agriculture and horticulture division is engaged in the
growing and production of tea, edible nuts (macadamias, pistachios
and almonds), citrus fruits, avocados, rubber, forestry,
viticulture, cattle, other horticultural produce and general
farming (maize and soya). The Group is one of the largest private
tea producers world-wide with a total of 65 tea estates and 60 tea
factories. The Group's main operations are in India, Bangladesh,
Malawi and Kenya, where the tea is grown and produced. It also has
notable agricultural operations, other than tea, in Brazil,
California, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi.
The engineering division is engaged in precision engineering,
cutting and grinding, heat treatment, galvanising, powder coating,
and metal finishing, etch inspection, the manufacture of stables,
and the development of catalysts. These businesses are
predominantly UK based and serve customers in a number of sectors
including the offshore oil and gas and aerospace sectors.
The food storage and distribution division is involved in
frozen, chilled and ambient temperature food supply chain
management providing cold storage, refrigerated transport and
production support to several leading UK food manufacturers. It
also specialises in frozen imports and distributes seafood products
in Europe and supplies food service customers in the Netherlands
with fish products.
The banking and financial services division comprises Duncan
Lawrie, which provides an integrated suite of banking services,
financial planning, investment management and trust and estate
advice.
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