30 April 2024

Anglo-Eastern Plantations Plc

("AEP", "Group" or "Company")

Directorate Change

Anglo-Eastern Plantations Plc which owns, operates and develops plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Michael Henry Stainer to the Board, as an Independent Non-Executive Director, with effect from 1 May 2024.

Mr. Stainer, aged 63, is a British citizen and a qualified accountant and a qualified corporate treasurer. He has some 30 years of experience working in private and listed companies holding a range of finance positions across companies in the property, mining, technology, food and public utilities industries. From 1992 to 2002, he was the Group Treasurer and a director of the non-regulated subsidiaries of Bristol Water Holdings Plc.   

Going forward, Mr. Stainer will be a member of the Group's Audit Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination and Corporate Governance Committee.

Save for the matter detailed in the appendix, there are no matters requiring disclosure under LR 9.6.13R.

The Board would like to take this opportunity to welcome Mr. Stainer to the Board.

For further enquiry, contact:-

Anglo-Eastern Plantations Plc

Dato' John Lim Ewe Chuan                                 +44 (0) 20 7216 4621

Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited

Dominic Morley / Amrit Mahbubani                    +44 (0) 20 7886 2500

Appendix

Michael Stainer was a director of Dtex Limited ("Dtex"). Dtex was initially dissolved on 10 August 2010. On 27 October 2010, creditors of Dtex requested the company be restored to the Register of Companies and subsequently wound up under the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 by an Official Receiver.