Last checked at 9 Mar 2010 07:05
9 March 2010
Mears Group PLC
("Mears" or "the Company")
Board Appointments
Further to the preliminary results announcement in which it was stated that Mr Rory Macnamara and Ms Davida Marston will be appointed to the board as non-excecutive directors immediately following the AGM in June 2010, the Company is making the following disclosures:
Mr Rory Macnamara is currently or has been in the last five years a director of the following publicly quoted companies:
| Current directorships | Previous directorships |
| Private Equity Investor PLC | GoshawK Insurance Holdings plc |
| Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust PLC | Raven Mount plc (re-named Raven Mount Limited) |
| Augean PLC | Raven Mount Group plc |
| Carpathian PLC (IoM Company) |
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| Essenden PLC |
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In addition, Mr Macnamara is non-executive chairman of Izodia plc, which entered into a company voluntary arrangement in May 2004. All creditors have now been paid in full and the company voluntary arrangement has been terminated.
There is no other information required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13 in relation to Mr Macnamara or Ms Marston.
About Mears www.mearsgroup.co.uk (tickers: MER.L MER.LN MER.PL)
Mears is a leading social housing repairs and maintenance service provider to Local Authorities and Registered Social Housing Landlords in the UK and, following the acquisition of Supporta, now commands a leading position in the UK Local Authorities' outsourced domiciliary care market, providing personal care services to people in their own homes.
Mears employs in excess of 11,000 people and provides maintenance and repairs services to 500,000 homes nationwide. Mears also provides over 150,000 hours of domiciliary care to 20,000 service users each week.
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| Mears Group PLC |
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| Bob Holt, Chairman | Tel: +44(0)7778 798 816 |
| Andrew Smith, Finance Director | Tel: +44(0)7712 866 461 |
| Joint Broker - Investec |
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| Keith Anderson/Daniel Adams | Tel: +44(0)20 7597 5970 |
| Joint Broker - Collins Stewart |
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| Mark Dickenson/Piers Coombs | Tel: +44(0)20 7523 8350 |
| Financial PR |
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| Threadneedle Communications |
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| Trevor Bass/Alex White | Tel: +44(0)20 7936 9666 |
| IR - Hansard Communications |
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| John Bick/Kirsty Corcoran | Tel: +44(0)7245 1100 Tel: +44(0)7872 061007 |