WHIreland Regulatory News (WHI)

22 Jul 2005 07:00

W.H. Ireland Group PLC22 July 2005 W. H. IRELAND GROUP plc Group's Broking Subsidiary appoints Managing Director W.H. Ireland Group plc is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, W.H. IrelandLimited, which provides stockbroking, investment management and corporatefinance services, has appointed Chris Muir as Managing Director, with effectfrom 1 September 2005. This is not currently a plc board appointment. Mr. Muir has over 20 years experience of stockbroking and joins the Group'ssubsidiary from Brewin Dolphin where from 1999 until present he was GroupOperations Director. Previously, he was Director of Administration at WiseSpeke. He also worked at Seymour Pierce Butterfield as Head of UK Operations. After the handover to Chris Muir, Richard Lee, currently Managing Director ofW.H. Ireland Limited, will continue in his role as Executive Director of W.H.Ireland Group plc. For further information, please contact: W. H. Ireland Group plcLaurie Beevers T: 0161 819 8724Richard Lee T: 0161 819 8876 BiddicksKatie Tzouliadis T: 020 7448 1000 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange