PureCircle Limited Board Update (0061D)

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PureCircle Limited

21 June 2019

Board Update

PureCircle (LSE: PURE), the world's leading producer and innovator of stevia sweeteners, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.11(3), announces that Ms. Rosemarie S. Andolino, currently an independent non-executive director, has accepted the appointment as Advisor to the CEO, which will take effect from 1 July 2019. In her additional role Ms. Andolino will advise the CEO on matters relating to the food services industry, Corporate Social Responsibility, branding, as well as government relations and regulatory matters in the USA. Ms. Andolino remains a non-executive director of the PureCircle Board, but would no longer be "independent" under the UK Corporate Governance Code as a result of Ms. Andolino's additional role

21 June 2019

Enquiries:

Investors/Analysts

Rakesh Sinha, CFO

   Email: [e-mail]  Phone [phone];   [phone] 

Media

Emma Kane (Newgate), Media Relations

Email: [e-mail] Phone: [phone]

Notes to Editors

About PureCircle

   -- PureCircle is the only company that combines advanced R&D with full vertical integration from farm to 
      high-quality, great-tasting innovative stevia sweeteners. 
 
   -- The Company collaborates with farmers who grow the stevia plants and with food and beverage companies which seek 
      to improve their low- and no-calorie formulations using a sweetener from plants. 
 
   -- PureCircle will continue to: lead in research, development and innovation; produce a growing supply of multiple 
      varieties of stevia sweeteners with sugar-like taste, using all necessary and appropriate methods of production; 
      and be a resource and innovation partner for food and beverage companies. 
 
   -- PureCircle stevia flavor modifiers work in synergy with sweeteners to improve the taste, mouthfeel and calorie 
      profile, and enhance the cost effectiveness, of beverage and food products. 
 
   -- Founded in 2002, PureCircle is continually investing in breakthrough research and development and it has been 
      granted over 100 stevia-related patents with more than 250 applied for patents pending. 
 
   -- PureCircle has offices around the world with the global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. 
 
   -- To meet growing demand for stevia sweeteners, PureCircle is rapidly ramping up its supply capability. It 
      completed expansion of its Malaysian stevia extract facility in March 2017, increasing its capacity to rapidly 
      supply the newer and great-tasting specialty stevia sweeteners and helping provide ever-increasing value to its 
      customers. 
 
   -- PureCircle's shares are listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. 
 
   -- For more information, visit: www.purecircle.com 

About stevia

   -- Given the growing global concerns about obesity and diabetes, beverage and food companies are working responsibly 
      to reduce sugar and calories in their products, responding to both consumers and health and wellness advocates. 
      Sweeteners from the stevia plant offer sugar-like taste and are becoming an increasingly important tool for these 
      companies. 
 
   -- Like sugar, stevia sweeteners are from plants. But unlike sugar, they enable low-calorie and zero-calorie 
      formulations of beverages and foods. 
 
   -- Stevia leaf extract is a natural-based, zero calorie, high-intensity sweetener, used by global food and beverage 
      companies as a great-tasting zero-calorie alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners. 
 
   -- Stevia is a naturally sweet plant native to South America; today, it is grown around the world, notably in Kenya, 
      China and the US. 
 
   -- The sweet-tasting parts of the stevia leaf are up to 350 times sweeter than sugar: stevia's high-intensity 
      sweetness means it requires far less water and land than sugar. 
 
   -- Research has shown that the molecules of the stevia leaf are present and unchanged in the dried stevia leaf, 
      through the commercial extraction and purification process, and in the final stevia leaf extract product. All 
      major global regulatory organisations, across 65 countries, have approved the use of high-purity stevia leaf 
      extracts in food and beverages. 
 
   -- For more information on the science of stevia, please visit https://www.purecirclesteviainstitute.com/ 

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