7 May 2024
HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP
PLC
("the Company" or
"Howdens")
NOTIFICATION OF BOARD
CHANGES
Howdens announces that Roisin Currie
and Suzy Neubert will be appointed as
independent Non-Executive Directors of the Company with effect from
1 July 2024. Following their appointments, both
Roisin and Suzy will join the Audit, Remuneration, Nominations, and
Sustainability Committees of the Board.
Roisin has been the Chief Executive
of Greggs plc ("Greggs") since May 2022. She joined Greggs as Group
People Director in 2010 and later became Retail and Property
Director. Roisin began her career at Asda where she spent 20 years,
latterly as Retail People Director and then Distribution People
Director. She is also Chair of the Employers Forum for Reducing
Re-offending, a voluntary role working with the Ministry for
Justice and New Futures Network, and she is a Trustee of the Duke
of Edinburgh Awards Scheme.
Suzy is currently a non-executive
director of Jupiter Fund Management Plc, Liverpool Victoria
Financial Services Limited (where she is also Chair of the
Investment Committee), and Isio (a pensions and actuarial
consultancy business). She is also the Senior Independent Director
at LondonMetric Property plc and a trustee of the King's Trust
(formerly the Prince's Trust). Until May 2023, she held the
position of Senior Independent Director of Witan Investment Trust
Plc. Suzy has previously also served as an executive director,
firstly as Managing Director of Equities at Merrill Lynch followed
by 14 years as Global Head of Sales & Marketing at J O Hambro
Capital Management Limited.
These disclosures are given in
accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.11R. The Company also
confirms that, following these appointments, it expects to meet two
of the three diversity targets set out in Listing Rule
9.8.6R(9)(a), those being that at least 40% of the Board is made up
of women and that at least one individual on the Board is from a
minority ethnic background.
For further information please
contact:
Forbes McNaughton, Company
Secretary
+44 (0)207 535 1110
Mark Fearon, Director of IR and
Communications
+44 (0)7711 875070
Media enquiries: Andrew Porter
(Brunswick)
+44 (0)207 404
5959