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Appointment of Interim Chief Financial Officer
Appointment of Interim Chief Financial Officer.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 1718Y Dialight PLC 21 January 2014 \n \n\n21 January 2014\n \nDialight plc \n(\"Dialight\" or the \"Company\")\n \nAppointment of Interim Chief Financial Officer\n \nDialight plc announces that Kevin Higginson has been appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer with immediate effect. A search for a permanent Group Finance Director is underway. \n \nKevin has over 25 years of experience in finance roles in UK public companies in the industrial, manufacturing and business services sectors. Kevin was most recently Chief Financial Officer of AEA Technology Group plc, where he served between 2011 and 2012. He has previously been Group Finance Director of Low & Bonar plc (2006 - 2010) and BSS Group plc (2001 - 2006). Between 1987 and 2001 Kevin worked in a variety of roles for Hazelwood Foods plc, including Group Finance Director and Group Chief Executive. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1985.\n \nContacts:\nDialight PLC\nBill Ronald - Chairman\nRoy Burton - Group Chief Executive\nTel: 01638 778641\n \nCanaccord Genuity Limited\nSimon Bridges\nTel: +44 (0) 20 7523 8000\n \nFTI Consulting\nNick Hasell\n+44 (0)20 7269 7191\n \nNote:\nKevin Higginson will not be appointed as a Director of Dialight plc and so there are no details to be disclosed in relation to paragraph 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority.\n\nAbout Dialight plc\nThe Group comprises the following business segments: \n \nLighting, which addresses the increasing demands for Energy Efficient Lighting solutions for industrial/hazardous locations;\n \nSignals, which covers Traffic, Transportation and Obstruction signals; and\n \nComponents, whose sales are primarily to Electronics OEMs for status indication. \n \nThe company is headquartered in the UK with operating locations in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, UAE, the UK and the USA. More information is available at www.dialight.com. \n\nThis information is provided by RNSThe company news service from the London Stock Exchange END BOAPGUPCGUPCGWG\n ","length":3822,"tagName":"div"}]