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16 April 2015
Sprue Aegis plc
("Sprue" or the "Company")
Directorate Changes
Sprue (AIM: SPRP), one of Europe's leading home safety products suppliers, is pleased to announce the appointment of John Shepherd as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect.
John began his career at British Aerospace where he held various systems and software engineering management positions. In 1990, he joined Smiths Industries where, as Managing Director of the Smiths Detection division, he was responsible for building a world leading transport, security and military detection systems business. Subsequently, he was appointed as Chief Executive of First Technology Group plc where he built up a substantial gas sensor and detection systems business prior to the company being acquired by Honeywell. Since 2008 until his retirement earlier this year, John served as Chief Executive of Synectics plc, an AIM quoted leader in the design, integration, control and management of advanced surveillance technology and networked security systems.
Commenting on the appointment, Graham Whitworth, Executive Chairman of Sprue said: "John has an impressive track record of building technology businesses of scale. Those successes reflect skills that will be particularly valuable to Sprue in the next phase of its development and the Board looks forward to working with John to help leverage the Group's technology and market leading positions."
In accordance with the statement made in the Company's admission document published on 24 April 2014, the Company also announces that Peter Lawrence, who has served as a Non-Executive Director of the Company since 2001, has agreed to resign as a Director of the Company and not to seek re-election at the Company's next annual general meeting due to be held in June 2015.
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For further information, please contact:
Sprue Aegis plc | 0247 771 7700 |
Graham Whitworth, Executive Chairman John Gahan, Group Finance Director | |
Westhouse Securities | 0207 601 6100 |
Tom Griffiths |
Appendix - AIM Rule 17
Save for the information set out below, there are no further disclosures to be made in accordance with Rule 17, Schedule Two (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies in respect of the appointment of John Shepherd, aged 61.
John Shepherd has no current directorships and has held the following directorships within the last 5 years:
A1 Presentations Limited
Coex Limited
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Fotovalue Limited
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Quadnetics Group Limited
Quadrant Research & Development Limited
Quadrant Security Group Limited
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SDA Protec Limited
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Notes to Editors
About Sprue Aegis plc
Group overview
With its head office in Coventry, UK, Sprue is one of Europe's leading home safety products suppliers outsourcing the manufacture of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms to third party suppliers in China leaving Sprue to focus on product design, development and certification, marketing and sales. Sprue manufactures one of the world's smallest carbon monoxide sensors for use in its carbon monoxide alarms at its own small facility in Canada.
Sprue sells smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and other safety related products throughout Europe under the FireAngel, AngelEye, SONA, Pace Sensors, First Alert, FireAngel Pro, BRK and Dicon brands and enjoys a strong Continental European market presence, a leading UK retail footprint, is the supplier of choice to the UK's Fire and Rescue Services and continues to develop its market share in the UK's trade sector.
Patented technology
With significant investment in ground-breaking technology and product development and with over 50 granted patents, the Company is now one of Europe's leading home safety products suppliers. Sprue's philosophy is simple: to make products that save lives.
For further product information, please visit:
www.sonasafety.com
www.fireangel.co.uk
www.firstalert.eu
www.brkdicon.eu/en or
www.sprue.com