Mears Regulatory News (MER)

7 Sep 2009 07:00



7 September 2009

Mears Group PLC

("Mears" or the "Group")

Social Housing Division

Senior Management Appointment

Mears is pleased to announce that Graham Eden will be joining as Managing Director of Mears' largest Social  Housing  division (London region).  He will be joining the Group in October 2009. 

Graham was most recently Chief Operating Officer of Morrison Plc's Social Housing and Facilities Services business, having worked in the sector for 29 years including the last 6 years with Morrison. Graham brings significant major partnership contract experience within the repairs and maintenance sector including roles at both operational and strategic level. 

Bob Holt, Chief Executive of Mears Group, said:

"It has always been a focus of Mears to seek to strengthen the senior management team to ensure that we have in place a structure that can plan for and manage future growth. We have led the social housing sector for the past ten years and Graham's appointment is a tremendous accolade to the strength of our social housing brand that the best operators in the market have a desire to join the best service provider."

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Mears Group is a leading social housing repairs and maintenance provider working in partnership with Local Authorities and Registered Social Housing Landlords and it has a growing presence in the domiciliary care market through its Careforce  business, providing personal care to people in their own homes delivered through partnerships with Local Authorities. In addition, Mears subsidiary Haydon is a specialist, mechanical and engineering services business. The Group employs more than 8000 people to maintain, repair and upgrade hundreds of thousands of homes nationwide and provides in excess of 90,000 hours of domiciliary care to over 13,500 people each week.