RNS Number : 3543E
BrainJuicer Group PLC
29 May 2012
 



 

 

 

 

Press Release

 29 May 2012

 

 

BrainJuicer Group PLC

 ("BrainJuicer" and the "Company")

 

Director Appointment and Director Dealing

 

BrainJuicer (AIM: BJU), a leading international online market research agency, announced on 23rd April 2012 that Simon Godfrey, a non-executive director of the Company, intends to retire from the board of directors by the end of September 2012.

 

He has been reducing his shareholding as a result, and the Company updates that Simon has today disposed of 10,000 shares at 308.50p per share.  Following the above transaction, Simon currently holds 14,298 shares representing 0.1% of the voting rights of the Company.

 

As a replacement for Simon, the Board is appointing Graham Blashill (aged 65) as a non-executive director with effect from 1st July 2012.  Graham has had a long career in sales and marketing of fast moving consumer goods.  He joined W.D.& H.O. Wills (a division of Imperial Tobacco) in 1968, holding a number of marketing and trading roles, and becoming Managing Director Imperial Tobacco UK in 1995.  In 2003 he was Regional Director for Western Europe, and in 2005 appointed Group Sales and Marketing Director responsible for Imperial Tobacco's global trading operations in over 160 countries.  He served as a main board director of Imperial Tobacco Group plc, a leading FTSE 100 company, for six years before retiring in 2011.

 

Disclosures regarding Mr Blashill appointment, pursuant to AIM rules (Schedule 2 paragraph (g)), are set out below:

 

Directorships held within the last five years

 

·     Imperial Tobacco Group Plc

·     Imperial Tobacco Limited

·     Imperial Tobacco Overseas Holdings (3) Limited

·     Imperial Tobacco International Limited

·     Altadis S.A.U.

·     Skruf Snus AB

·     Societe Nationale D'explotation Industrielle Des Tabacs et Allumettes SAS (SEITA)

·     Imperial Tobacco Pension Trustees Limited

·     Tobacco Trade Benevolent Association

 

Current Directorships

 

·     Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Trade Benevolent Fund

 

There is no further information to be disclosed under AIM rules (Schedule 2 paragraph (g)) in respect of Mr Blashill's appointment.

 

The Company can be found at www.brainjuicer.com.

 

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For further information, please contact:

BrainJuicer Group PLC


 

John Kearon, Chief Executive Officer

Tel: +44 (0)20 7043 1000

 

James Geddes, Chief Financial Officer

www.brainjuicer.com

 

Canaccord Genuity Limited


Simon Bridges / Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor

Tel: +44 (0)20 7523 8000

www.canaccordgenuity.com

 


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