Change to Board of Directors

Brooke Industrial Holdings PLC 7 September 2000 BROOKE INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS PLC APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR The Company is pleased to announce that, following admission of the new ordinary shares in the Company arising from the recent open offer to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities, David Abell was appointed yesterday to the board of Brooke Industrial Holdings plc as a non-executive director.