Fiske PLC Directorate Change (4131C)

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RNS Number : 4131C

Fiske PLC

01 October 2018

1 October 2018

Fiske Plc

('Fiske' or 'the Company')

Directorate Change

The Directors of Fiske plc (the Company) are pleased to announce that, Tony Pattison has been appointed a Director of the Company with effect from 1 October 2018.

Tony Pattison is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment. During a City career spanning five decades, he has been actively involved at senior director level in the management of a number of investment companies including Fieldings Investment Management Limited ("Fieldings"), which was acquired by Fiske plc in 2017. Until his retirement from the board in 2015 he was Chairman of Capital Gearing Trust plc. He continues to personally manage private client, charity and institute portfolios.

Tony Robert Pattison, age 67, is, or has been, a director or partner of the following companies and partnerships during the past five years.

 
 Current directorships and partnerships   Past directorships and partnerships 
 Fielding Investment Management           Capital Gearing Trust plc 
  Limited 
 

Mr Pattison currently holds 263,884 ordinary shares of 25p each in the Company ("Fiske Ordinary Shares") which represent 2.27% of the Company's total voting rights.

Mr Pattison was a shareholder in Fieldings with an interest of 6.26%. Pursuant to a Sale and Purchase Agreement (see announcements dated 27 July 2017 and 31 August 2018), Fiske has acquired the whole of the issued share capital of Fieldings. Under the terms of the Sale and Purchase Agreement, the shareholders of Fieldings, including Mr Pattison, may be due additional consideration which may be satisfied partially in the form of Fiske Ordinary Shares.

Mr Pattison was a Director of Capel-Cure Myers Capital Management Limited (CCM) until the end of 2000. Following a hearing in 1994, CCM was severely reprimanded by the Securities and Futures Authority (SFA) in Board Notice 446 on 20 October 1997 and ordered to pay a fine for inadequate custody administration and record keeping in connection with the management of part of the Mirror Group Pension Scheme investment portfolio. Mr Pattison was deemed by the SFA to be the person with overall responsibility for all aspects of the discretionary management of the portfolio. Mr Pattison received a reprimand but no fine. The Company confirms there is no other information that is required to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.

For further information please contact:

-- Samantha Harrison / Harrison Clarke, Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser)

(tel: [phone])

-- Gerard Luchini, Fiske Plc - Company Secretary

(tel: [phone])

The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation 596/2014.

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