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Change of Name, Board and Management Changes
Change of Name, Board and Management Changes.
About this update from Roebuck Food Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 1864T\n Norish PLC\n 22 November 2021\n \n \n \n \n 22 November 2021\n \n \n Roebuck Food Group plc (\"the Company\")\n \n \n (formerly Norish plc)\n \n \n Change of Name, Board and Management Changes\n \n Further to the announcement earlier of the results of today's EGM, the Company's change of name to Roebuck Food Group plc has been registered by the Registrar of Companies in Ireland.\n Arising from the sale of the Cold Stores and return of capital, the Company is pleased to announce the following Board and management changes\n Management\n ● As previously announced, Group CEO Kieran Mahon will be leaving the Company in December 2021.\n ●Aidan Hughes will step down from his executive role as Group Finance Director on 31 December 2021.\n ● Declan Morrissey, current CEO of the Company's dairy division, will assume the role of CEO and join the Board on 1 January 2022.\n ● Gerard Murphy, current Group Company Secretary, will become Finance Director and join the Board on 1 January 2022.\n Further details of Mr Morrissey and Mr Murphy are contained below.\n Board\n Non-executive directors Torgeir Mantor and Willie McCarter are retiring from the Board with immediate effect.\n Aidan Hughes will remain on the Board and will become non-executive Deputy Chairman on 1 January 2022.\n \n Executive Chairman Ted O'Neill commented:\n \n \"Now that we have disposed of the cold store division and are returning funds to shareholders, it is an opportune time to refresh the Board and executive team, some of whom have been on the journey with the Company for many years. I am already on the record for expressing my gratitude to Kieran Mahon and I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to Torgeir Mantor and Willie McCarter for their good counsel and good humour on the board over many years. I would also like to welcome Declan and Gerard to the Board as we embark on a new and exciting journey with the renamed Roebuck Food Group plc.\"\n Declan Morrissey (34) joined the Company in 2017 as head of the Dairy Division and co-founded its subsidiary Grass to Milk Company Ltd; commercialising dairy products with functional nutrition benefits, derived from its unique A2 protein grass-fed milk source. He previously worked as an equity analyst in Davy, covering the European ...