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RNS Number : 2218Y 
Discover Leisure PLC 
28 August 2009 
 

 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
28 August 2009 
 
 
 
 
DISCOVER LEISURE PLC 
("Discover Leisure" or "the Group") 
 
 
 
 
Appointment of Director 
 
 
The Company is pleased to announce the appointment with immediate effect of 
James Hayward as a non-executive director of the Company. 
 
 
Mr Hayward (46) is a turnaround and restructuring specialist with over 18 years 
operational and strategic experience and is a partner of Boss llp. He is 
currently also a director of Ferris Hayward Limited and is a partner of both 
Arcade Films 4 llp and Broad Oak Support Services llp. In the last five years he 
has held directorships with Espares Limited and Monotub Industries plc. 
 
 
Further disclosure as required under Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM 
Rules is set out in the Appendix to this announcement. 
 
 
 
 
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| For further information contact:                |                                | 
| Discover Leisure plc                            |                                | 
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| David Morrow, Chairman                          |                  01430 803 385 | 
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| Trevor Parker, Chief Executive                  |                                | 
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| Neil Harwood, Finance Director                  |                                | 
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| Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited                     |                020 7459 3600   | 
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| Andrew Godber / Stuart Gledhill                 |                                | 
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| Cubitt Consulting                               |                  020 7367 5100 | 
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| Brian Coleman-Smith / James Verstringhe / Nicola Krafft     |      07802 724 400 | 
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Background Note 
 
 
Discover Leisure is a leading specialist caravan and leisure industry retailer 
which floated on AIM in May 2005. Following the restructuring of the Group's 
activities, it is focused on the retailing of caravans and motor homes in the 
North of England. It also sells a range of outdoor leisure products from its 
branches and over the internet. 
 
 
The Group has 5 branches across the North of England located at: Birtley 
(Tyneside), Delamere (Cheshire), Chorley (Lancashire), Darlington 
(County Durham) and York (Yorkshire). Its head office is situated in East 
Yorkshire. 
 
 
The board consists of David Morrow, Chairman; Trevor Parker, Chief Executive; 
and Neil Harwood, Finance Director. The Non Executive Directors are Ian Currie 
and Simon Dixon. 
 
Appendix 
 
 
In 2003, Monotub Industries PLC, a company of which James Hayward was a 
director, was placed into a members voluntary liquidation. Following the 
liquidation of the assets all creditors were paid in full and there was a small 
surplus of cash available for the ongoing costs of the liquidation. The only 
asset remaining in the company was the intellectual property rights to the Titan 
washing machine. In 2008 the liquidators deemed that there was no reasonable 
prospect of receiving any further monies in respect of these intellectual 
property rights and it was agreed to dissolve the company. There were 
insufficient funds available to pay creditors in full (the deficit was less than 
GBP5,000, incurred post the appointment of the liquidators), so the company was 
put into a creditors voluntary liquidation and finally dissolved in June 2009. 
 
 
Mr Hayward has confirmed that no further disclosures are required under Schedule 
2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules. 
 
This information is provided by RNS 
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange 
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