ASOS appoints Mathew Dunn as Chief Financial Officer

Board Change: CFO Appointment

The Board of ASOS plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Mathew Dunn to the role of Chief Financial Officer and to the main Board of the company. Mathew will take up his roles in the spring of 2019 on a date to be announced in due course.

Mathew has held a variety of senior management positions, including at SABMiller plc and most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Britvic plc.

Nick Beighton, ASOS CEO said "I'm looking forward to working with Mathew. He brings us a totally relevant mix of operational experience together with a history of implementing and overseeing finance systems at an international level".

Mathew Dunn said "I'm very much looking forward to working with the ASOS team. I'm motivated by their ambitious plans to realise the significant potential still ahead for the company".

The following additional information is provided in accordance with paragraph (g) of Schedule Two to the AIM Rules for Companies:

Mathew James Dunn (aged 44)

Current directorships:

Britvic plc

Britannia Soft Drinks Limited

Britvic Asset Company No.1 Limited

Britvic Asset Company No.2 Limited

Britvic Asset Company No.3 Limited

Britvic Asset Company No.4 Limited

Britvic Beverages Limited*

Britvic Corona Limited*

Britvic International Investments Limited

Britvic International Support Services Limited

Britvic Overseas Limited

Britvic Soft Drinks Limited

British Vitamin Products Limited*

Greenbank Drinks Co Limited*

H.D. Rawlings Limited*

Hooper, Struve & Co Limited*

Idris Limited*

London Essence Co Limited (The)*

Orchid Drinks Limited

Red Devil Energy Drinks Limited

Robinsons (Finance) No.2 Limited

Robinsons Soft Drinks Limited

R. White & Sons Limited*

Southern Table Water Co Limited (The)*

Sunfresh Soft Drinks Limited*

The Really Wild Drinks Co Limited*

Britvic (Finance) Limited

Britvic (Finance) No. 2 Limited

Aquaporte Limited

Britvic Ireland Limited

Britvic Irish Holdings Limited

Britvic Licensed Wholesale Limited

Britvic Munster Limited

Britvic Northern Ireland Limited

Counterpoint Wholesale (Ireland) Limited

Counterpoint Wholesale (NI) Limited

Knockton Limited

Robinsons (Finance) Limited

Britvic Brasil Holdings SA

Empresa Brasileira de Bebidas e Alimentos SA ("EBBA")

Britvic Brands LLP

Companies marked * are dormant.

 

Previous directorships in the previous five years:

Skol Beer Manufacturing Company Limited (India) until February 2014

SABMiller India Limited (India) until February 2014

SABMiller Breweries Private Limited (India) until February 2014

SABMiller Holdings Inc (USA) until May 2015

SABMiller Asia Limited (Hong Kong) until February 2014

SABMiller Africa and Asia B.V. (UK establishment) until February 2014

SABMiller Asia Holdings Limited (UK) until August 2015

The South African Breweries (Pty) Limited (South Africa) until August 2015

SABSA Holdings Limited (South Africa) until August 2015

Appletiser South Africa  (Pty) Limited (South Africa) until January 2015

SABMiller Finance B.V. (South Africa) until August 2015

China Resources Snow Breweries Limited (British Virgin Islands) until September 2015

China Capital Investments Limited (British Virgin Islands) until September 2015

China Glory Investments Limited (British Virgin Islands) until September 2015

Make Wish Investments Limited (British Virgin Islands) until September 2015

Max Shine International Limited (British Virgin Islands) until September 2015

CREB Licensing Limited (Mauritius) until September 2015

China Resources Snow Breweries (Suzhou) Investments Limited (Hong Kong) until September 2015

CRE Beverage Trading Limited (Hong Kong) until September 2015

Guangdong Kingway Sales Limited (Hong Kong) until September 2015

China Resources Snow Breweries (China) Investment Co. Limited (People's Republic of China) until September 2015

China Resources Snow Breweries (Wuhan) Co, Limited (People's Republic of China) until January 2015

China Resources Snow Breweries (Jiangsu) Co, Limited (People's Republic of China) until February 2014

China Resources Snow Breweries (Wuxi) Co, Limited (People's Republic of China) until December 2016

AustIndia PTY Limited (Australia) until August 2015

Linton Brewing PTY Limited (Australia) until August 2015

SAB Asia Capital LLP (Australia) until May 2015

SAB Australia Beverage Holdings LLP (Australia) until September 2015

SAB Financing Southern LLP (Australia) until September 2015

SAB Australia PTY Limited (Australia) until August 2015

SAB Beverage Investments PTY Limited (Australia) until August 2015

SAB Capital AU PTY Limited (Australia) until August 2015

SABMiller Capital Two PTY Limited (Australia) until June 2014

SABMiller Capital One PTY Limited (Australia) until June 2014

There is no further information to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule Two Part (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

For further information:    

ASOS plc     Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Greg Feehely, Director of Investor Relations	Tel: 020 7756 1000
Instinctif Partners Matthew Smallwood / Justine Warren / Tom Berger	Tel: 020 7457 2020
JPMorgan Cazenove (Nominated Advisor)                                                     Michael Wentworth-Stanley / Bill Hutchings	Tel: 020 7742 4000
Numis Securities    Alex Ham / Luke Bordewich / Tom Ballard	Tel: 020 7260 1000

 

Background note

ASOS is a global fashion destination for 20-somethings, selling all the freshest styles complemented by exclusive content, making ASOS.com the hub of a thriving fashion community and giving our audience the confidence to be whoever they want to be. ASOS sells over 87,000 branded and ASOS Brand products through localised app and mobile/desktop web experiences, delivering from fulfilment centres in the UK, US and Europe. ASOS curates a mix of our in-house designed labels, ASOS DESIGN, ASOS EDITION, ASOS WHITE and ASOS 4505, with global and local brands sold through our own channels to deliver a locally relevant offer. Our ground-breaking propositions help bring our amazing products to almost every country in the world and we serve customers globally with increasingly tailored local experiences: relevant languages, payment methods and delivery and return options. You can currently shop ASOS in over 200 markets, in eight languages, using an ever greater number of different payment methods, with hundreds of local deliveries and returns options from pick up and drop off networks to Next-Day Delivery. We aim to give all our global customers a truly frictionless experience.

ASOS's websites attracted 157.2m visits during August 2018 (August 2017: 135.7m) and as at 31 August 2018 had 18.4m active customers¹ (31 August 2017: 15.4m), of which 6.0m were located in the UK and 12.4m were located in international territories (31 August 2017: 5.2m in the UK and 10.2m internationally).

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