Directorate Change

RNS Number:4172V
Brightview PLC
24 April 2007


Brightview PLC
24 April 2007

                Brightview plc ('Brightview' or the 'Company')

                           Appointment of Director

The Board of Brightview is pleased to announce the appointment of David Brian
Long as a Non-Executive Director of the  Company with effect from 23 April 2007.

Brian Long, aged 63, is an experienced company director who currently sits on
the board of four other companies.  He  has wide experience of acquisitions and
disposals, fund raising and refinancing, both in the UK and overseas, and in 
leading strategic reviews.  Between 1995 and 2000 he served as chairman of
Surgical Innovations plc, an AIM listed  company which he guided through two
fund raising exercises and a merger.

Mr Long is a mining engineer by training and holds an MBA from Harvard Business
School.

Current directorships are:

Lontra Limited
Alex Stewart Group Limited
Poclain Hydraulics SAS
Meta Vision Systems Limited

Other directorships in the last five years are:

Infraplan Limited
RCG Moody Limited
Powerlase Limited
Structural Polymer Group Limited
IPS Manufacturing Technologies Limited

Mr Long was a director of the following companies which were put into 
liquidation:

Aquarian Holdings Ltd (1992 to 1997) - Members voluntary liquidation when
businesses sold off. All creditors paid.

Integral Plastics Group plc (1999 to 2003) - Company acquired 2 subsidiaries of
another group which had been put into receivership. Acquisition proved to be an
error and company put into liquidation.

Enquiries:

Brightview plc

David Stirling 020 7665 3060

Canaccord Adams Limited

Mark Williams 020 7050 6500



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