Board Appointment (4118F)
April 26 2011 - 3:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 4118F
Lonrho PLC
26 April 2011
Lonrho Plc
("Lonrho" or the "Company")
Lonrho Plc appoints the Rt. Hon Sir Richard Needham to the
Board
26 April 2011
The Board of Lonrho Plc is pleased to announce the appointment
today of the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Needham as an independent
Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect,
details of which are set out in the Prospectus.
Sir Richard had a distinguished career in parliament culminating
in his time as Britain's longest serving Minister in Northern
Ireland from 1985 - 1992 and as Minister of Trade from 1992 -
1995.
Sir Richard left politics in 1997 and has since focused on the
private sector, and has been a director of GEC Plc, Meggitt Plc,
and currently is the Vice Chairman of NEC Europe Ltd. He has been
on the Board of Dyson Ltd for over 15 years, and is currently the
Senior Independent Director. He has been non-executive Chairman of
Avon Rubber Plc since January 2007.
David Lenigas, Lonrho's Executive Chairman, commented:
"Sir Richard Needham has extensive Governmental and commercial
experience with a global perspective, and brings in-depth
experience of working in the Far East, a region where Lonrho is
seeing growing interaction for trade and infrastructure projects
between Africa and the Far East."
Enquiries
Lonrho Plc
David Lenigas, Executive Chairman Tel +44 (0) 20 7016 5105
Geoffrey White, Chief Executive Tel +44 (0) 20 7016 5105
Pelham Bell Pottinger Public Relations
Charles Vivian +44 (0) 20 7861 3126
+44 (0) 7977 297 903
James MacFarlane +44 (0) 20 7861 3864
+44 (0) 7841 672 831
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