AGM result and appointment of director

2 Oct 2008 16:24

Date: 2nd October 2008 On behalf of: Western Selection P.L.C. ("Western" or "the Company") For immediate release Western Selection P.L.C. AGM results and appointment of Director

Western Selection P.L.C. , an investment company with a mix of Strategic Investments and a General Portfolio of U.K. stocks, held its Annual General Meeting today and is pleased to report that all resolutions were passed unanimously.

With effect from the close of the meeting Mr. A.R.C. Barclay retired as a director of the Company and Mr. E.J. Beale was elected in his place. Mr Beale is a Chartered Accountant and is the Chief Executive of City Group P.L.C., the Company's secretaries and administrators. He is also a member of the Accounting Standards Board of the Financial Reporting Council and Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance. He is a non-executive director of Finsbury Food Group plc, Halogen Holdings S.A. and our associated company, Hartim Limited.

Further details on Mr. Beale are set out below:

Full Name and age: Edward John Beale, 48

Names of all companies and partnerships of which Mr. Beale has been a director or partner in the previous five years:

Present directorships Past directorships Cabernet Holdings Limited Accord Tea Services Limited City Group P.L.C. Bunhill P.L.C. City Group Nominees Limited Memory Lane Cakes Limited City Group Custodians Limited Nicholas & Harris Limited City Group Registrars Limited Storesurvey Limited

City Group Asset Management Limited Coffee Roasters International Limited Conafex Holdings (U.K.) Limited

Falcon Gold (Jersey) Limited Finsbury Food Group Plc

Global Coffee Exports (U.K.) Limited

Halogen Holdings P.L.C. Halogen Holdings S.A. Hartim Limited Heartstone Inns Limited Housestaple Limited Lonfin Investments Limited

Monteagle Consumer Group (UK) Limited Monteagle Properties (UK) Limited Olympus Gold (Jersey) Limited Western Selection P.L.C.

There is no other information required to be published in accordance with Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.

Enquiries to:Western Selection P.L.C. 020 7448 8950 Edward Beale Redleaf Communications 020 7822 0200

Emma Kane/Sanna Sumner/Rebecca

Sanders-Hewett FinnCap 020 7600 1658 Matthew Robinson/Ed Frisby Loeb Aron & Co. Ltd. 020 7628 1128

Peter Freeman / Jonathan Willis-Richards

Notes to Editors:

The Company is an investment finance company and the investment policy is to hold strategic stakes in a few smaller UK quoted companies and maintain a diversified portfolio of U.K. listed equities, together with a few holdings on AIM, PLUS and some unlisted shares. Strategic Investments are minority positions where the Board seeks to maintain a close working relationship with the management of the investee. Western is represented on the boards of three of its four Strategic Investments. The General Portfolio is managed by two non-executive directors, Andrew Hall and Michael Robotham, and the Board as a whole takes decisions in relation to both strategic and unlisted investments.