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Arden Partners plc

("Arden" or the "Company")

Board appointments

Arden Partners plc (AIM: ARDN), the institutional stockbroking company, is today pleased to announce the following appointments to the Company's Board:

Chairman

Mark Ansell has been appointed Chairman of the Board with immediate effect. Mark has been an independent Non-executive Director of the Company since December 2010 and assumed the role of interim Chairman on 24 May 2018.

Group Finance Director

Steve Douglas has been appointed Group Finance Director, such appointment to take effect immediately upon relevant regulatory approval being received.

Steve joined the Corporate Finance team at Arden in 2004 and became Head of Corporate Finance in 2014. Steve has been part of the senior management team which has led the significant investments made across every department as the Company has been restructured over the last 18 months.

Steve is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, having qualified with Deloitte & Touche in 1998 and is a Chartered member of the Securities Institute.

Independent Non-executive Director

Alistair Currie has been appointed as an independent Non-executive Director, such appointment to take effect immediately upon relevant regulatory approval being received. It is intended that Alistair Currie will become a member of the audit, remuneration and nomination committees of the Board.

Alistair has been a fund manager specialising in UK Smaller Companies for almost 30 years. He was formerly a director of Edinburgh Fund Managers plc and was the Head of UK Smaller Companies for that group for a number of years. He joined Castlefield Investment Partners LLP in 2007, was a partner between September 2009 and August 2018, and has managed the Castlefield B.E.S.T Sustainable UK Smaller Companies Fund since April 2007. Alistair qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in 1988.

Mark Ansell, Chairman of Arden, said: "I am delighted to have been appointed Chairman of the Company and to welcome both Steve and Alistair to the Board. Their experience and knowledge will be invaluable to the Company, and I look forward to working with them as we execute our growth strategy over the coming years."

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Additional information on Steve Douglas, Group Finance Director

Steven Douglas, aged 44, has not held any directorships or been a partner in any partnerships within the previous five years.

At the date of this announcement, Steven Douglas holds 139,274 ordinary shares in the Company.

Additional information on Alistair Currie, Non-executive Director

Alistair Malcolm Thomson Currie, aged 55, has held the following directorships or been a partner in the following partnerships within the last five years:

* these entities are unregistered partnerships

Alistair Currie was appointed as a director of Forth Independent Newspapers Limited (company number SC235985) on 16 June 2004 and was a director on 30 June 2011 when a liquidator was appointed to the company. A winding up order was issued on 10 August 2011 and the company was dissolved on 10 December 2013.

Alistair Currie was appointed as a director of East Kilbride Mail Limited (company number SC262037) on 26 March 2008 and was a director on 28 June 2011 when a liquidator was appointed to the company. A winding up order was issued on 8 August 2011 and the company was dissolved on 19 May 2013.