LPA Group PLC Directorate Change (3560I)

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LPA Group PLC

21 March 2018

LPA GROUP PLC

Directorate Change

LPA Group plc ("LPA" or the "Group"), the LED lighting and electro-mechanical system manufacturer and distributor, announces the appointment of Christopher Buckenham FCCA as Chief Financial Officer with effect from 22 March 2018, in succession to Stephen Brett ACA, Finance Director, who alongside Per Staehr, Non-Executive Director, retires at the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting to be held at 12 noon today.

Chris joined LPA in October 2017 as Finance Executive as part of the Group Management succession plan to succeed Stephen Brett, Finance Director, whose retirement at LPA's Annual General Meeting was announced in the Chairman's Statement on 23 January 2018.

Chris qualified as a chartered certified accountant in 1996 and became a partner with SR Howell & Co before joining Grant Thornton Corporate Finance in 2000. Having led the financial restructuring of a client, CRP, he became its Finance Director and a shareholder in it in 2005. He left CRP in 2016 following its acquisition by Smurfit Kappa in 2013, to become Group Finance Director at Penso.

Other than as set out below, there are no matters that are required to be disclosed under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies in respect of the appointment of Christopher James Buckenham (aged 46):

 
 Current Appointments   Past Appointments 
 None                   CRP Print & Packaging Holdings 
                         Limited 
                         CRP Print & Packaging Limited 
                         Howper 485 Limited 
                         Penso City Vehicles Limited 
                         Penso Consulting Limited 
                         Penso Electronics Limited 
                         Penso Holdings Limited 
                         Penso Limited 
                         Penso Technology Limited 
 

As at the date of this announcement, Mr Buckenham does not hold any ordinary shares in the Company.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

21 March 2018

ENQUIRIES:

 
 LPA Group plc                       Tel: [phone] or 
                                      01799 512844 
 Peter Pollock, Chief Executive 
 
 Cairn Financial Advisers            Tel: [phone] 
  (Nominated Adviser) 
 James Caithie / Tony Rawlinson 
 
 WH Ireland (Broker)                 Tel: [phone] 
 Tim Feather / James Sinclair-Ford 
 
 Instinctif Partners (PR             Tel: [phone] 
  Adviser) 
 Mark Garraway / Helen Tarbet 
 

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