Last checked at 5 Jan 2009 07:00
5 January 2009
For immediate release
Genus plc
("Genus" or the "Company")
Appointment of Brokers and Advisers
Genus plc, a world leading animal genetics company, is pleased to announce that it has appointed KBC Peel Hunt as joint stockbroker and Morgan Stanley as lead financial adviser with immediate effect.
Following this appointment Genus' stockbrokers and advisers are KBC Peel Hunt (joint stockbroker), Morgan Stanley (lead financial adviser) and Teathers (financial adviser and joint stockbroker).
For further information, please contact:
| Genus plc | Tel: 01256 345970 | |
| Richard Wood, Chief Executive | ||
| Martin Boden, Finance Director | ||
| KBC Peel Hunt | Tel: 020 7418 8952 | |
| Simon Hayes, Chief Executive | ||
| Morgan Stanley | Tel: 020 7677 2395 | |
| Peter Moorhouse, Managing Director | ||
| Teathers | Tel: 020 7426 9000 | |
| Shaun Dobson, Managing Director |
About Genus
Genus creates advances to animal breeding through biotechnology and sells added value products for livestock farming and food producers. Its non-genetically modified organism technology is applicable across all livestock species but is only commercialised by Genus in the bovine and porcine farming sectors.
Genus' worldwide sales are made in seventy countries under the trade marks "ABS" (dairy and beef cattle) and "PIC" (pigs) and comprise semen and breeding animals with superior genetics to those animals currently in production. Customers' animals produce offspring with greater production efficiency, milk and meat output and quality and use these to supply the global dairy and meat supply chain.
The Group's competitive edge has been created from the ownership and control of proprietary lines of breeding animals, the biotechnology used to improve them and its global production and distribution network.
Headquartered in Basingstoke, England, Genus companies operate in 30 countries on six continents, with research laboratories located in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.